All news: Health and social services
"Indigenous peoples have the right to decent work"
"A better and just future for indigenous peoples demands new and innovative approaches that enhance the visibility of indigenous peoples and pay attention to their concerns, needs and aspirations," said ILO Director-General underlying the role of...
Health sector policies
Ebola: How decent work in the health sector saves lives of health personnel
International labour standards and tools, if correctly applied, are very effective in protecting frontline health workers treating patients with potentially deadly infectious diseases, such as Ebola, says Christiane Wiskow, Senior Health Sector...
Better Work
Safety Fun Run 2015 to educate garment workers in lifting safety and health standards
About 4,500 garment workers in the South are set to join Better Work Vietnam’s annual fun run this year on 17 May in Binh Duong to highlight the issue of health and safety in the apparel industry.
ILO: 'Building a culture of prevention on OSH is a joint commitment by governments, workers and employers'
ILO Deputy Director-General for Policy Sandra Polaski attended the first All-Russian OSH Week, where she highlighted the need to ensure safe and healthy workplaces worldwide.
Labour Migration
In their own voices
An ILO-produced film documents the opportunities and obstacles on the path taken by migrant health-care workers from the Philippines.
Women trade union leaders from Central Asia discuss promotion of equal opportunities
From February 23 to 27 Moldova’s capital Chisinau hosted a seminar entitled “Decent labour rights of women and promotion of equal opportunities: best practices and prospects.”
World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends 2015
Private sector services and the care economy, key engines of job creation
ILO report points to accelerating job growth in private sector services over the next 5 years and an increasing demand for higher-skilled workers.
The gender dimension: Integrating the gender perspective in OSH policies
The increasing proportion of women in the workforce raises a range of gender-related questions about the different effects of work-related risks on men and women. If health promotion policies in the field of occupational safety and health (OSH) are...
Universal Health Coverage Day
Global health protection crisis leaves almost 40% of the world’s population without any coverage
New ILO study reveals large health coverage gaps, including in West African countries, where 80 per cent have no coverage.
Workers of Kaluga, Sverdlovsk and Vologda regions’ enterprises undertake voluntary HIV-testing
In the run-up to the World AIDS Day workers at enterprises of the Kaluga, Sverdlovsk and Vologda regions got an opportunity to undertake HIV counseling and testing at their workplaces.
World AIDS Day. Decent work, social protection can help close the gap
People living with HIV experience, on average, unemployment rates three times higher than the national average. Closing the gap - the theme of this World AIDS Day - is a strong reminder that despite significant progress, we have left behind some...
Workers of Sverdlovsk region’s enterprises undertake voluntary HIV-testing
Workers at enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region got an opportunity to undertake HIV-testing at their workplaces. As a result, Russia’s Urals region joined the ILO’s global initiative Voluntary and Confidential HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT@WORK).
Disabilities
Mental ill-health at the workplace: Don’t let stigma be our guide
Providing support, rather than excluding them from the workplace and keeping them on lifelong benefits, is the best way to help workers experiencing mental disorders.
Experts from Europe, CIS and Baltic states discuss e-Services in social security
On October 23, representatives of social security institutions from 15 countries, of Europe, the CIS and Baltic states finished up their discussion of problems emerging with the enhancement of quality and scalability of e-Services in social security...
Mr Srinivas B Reddy Country Director, International Labour Organization, Bangladesh On Sixty-seventh Session of the WHO Regional...
Mr Srinivas B Reddy Country Director, International Labour Organization, Bangladesh On Sixty-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia
A world without fatal work accidents is possible
A world without fatal or serious occupational accidents is possible, the organizers of the XX World Congress on Safety and Health at Work 2014 have appealed, as the largest global occupational safety event opened in Frankfurt, Germany on Monday 25...
International Youth Day 2014
Ryder: "The mental health of young people matters to us all"
Message by Guy Ryder Director-General International Labour Organization on the occasion of International Youth Day 2014
Today some 75 million young people are unemployed globally and more than 220 million young workers are struggling for survival in the informal economy and living in extreme poverty.
Work improvement in health services
ILO and WHO team up to improve working conditions in the health sector
The two UN agencies are publishing the HealthWISE package – consisting of an Action Manual and Trainers’ Guide – that aims not only to improve working conditions for health workers but also to deliver better quality services for patients.
Social protection
No health workers, no health protection
The global shortage of health workers is hampering efforts to deliver essential quality health care to all in need and achieve universal health protection.
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