All publications: Health and social services

ESS Paper Series No. 9

Extending health insurance in Senegal: options for statutory schemes and mutual organisations

Social security in Senegal covers less than 20 per cent of the population in terms of both personal and derived rights. The list of persons excluded also includes temporary workers and day labourers as well as workers in the informal...

ESS Paper Series No. 13

Extending social security. Policies for developing countries

This paper reviews the main trends and policy issues with regard to the extension of social security in developing countries. It begins by defining the concept of social security, and it examines its linkages with the development process and its...

Microinsurance that works for women : making gender-sensitive microinsurance programs

Microinsurance Innovation Facility - Microinsurance Paper No. 3 (Electronic resource)

Promoting occupational health services for workers in the informal economy through primary care units

This working paper reviews and analyses the substantial efforts of the primary care units(PCU)in different districts under the guidance of the Bureau for Occupational and Environmental Diseases of the Ministry of Public Health. The paper highlights...

Working Paper No. 5 - Social economy approaches to mainstreaming HIV/AIDS : the case of the Kasojetua youth group

CoopAFRICA Working Paper No. 5 - with ILO/AIDS, Series on HIV/AIDS impact mitigation in the world of work – responses from the social economy

Fact Sheet - The ILO (2000) International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses

A new edition of the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses (Rev. 2000) is now available from the ILO.

Working Paper No. 86 - The unpaid care work - paid work connection

Nurse migration: The Asian perspective

Aims to capture the current situation of nurse migration from an Asian perspective. Asian countries are sources of nurses as well as hosts for foreign nurses.

8th European Regional Meeting - Facts on social protection in Europe and Central Asia

Over the past two decades, social security in Europe and Central Asia has been marked by change. Many countries have reformed social protection policies in response to fundamental changes in the make up of their population as well as domestic...

Child labour, education and health: A review of the literature

This paper reviews the rapidly-expanding literature on the relationships between child labour, education and health. With the renewed interest in child labour as an economic and social problem, researchers have attempted to assess its linkages to...

Fundamental principles of occupational health and safety. Second edition

Fully revised and updated, this second edition introduces new ILO instruments promoting occupational safety and health (OSH) and new chemical safety information tools, and addresses OSH in the context of globalization and HIV/AIDS and the world of...

Using the ILO Code of Practice on HIV/AIDS and the world of work - Guidelines for the construction sector

Driving for change - A training toolkit on HIV/AIDS for the road transport sector

Driving for change – Instructors’ module

This module is intended for anyone called upon to deliver training about HIV and AIDS. You may be working in a road transport company, a training institution or a trade union. You may be delivering training in a more formal setting through, for...

Driving for change – Drivers’ module

This module is for use by instructors who will deliver training programmes for drivers on HIV/AIDS through an international network of quality approved IRU Academy Accredited Training Institutes (IRU Academy ATIs). It contains detailed lesson plans...

Driving for change – Managers’ module

This module is for use by instructors who will deliver training programmes for managers on HIV/AIDS through an international network of quality approved IRU Academy Accredited Training Institutes (IRU Academy ATIs). It contains detailed lesson plans...

Driving for change – Module for informal settings

This module contains exercises and activities that can be used with drivers and other road transport workers in informal (and formal) settings.

Displaced Palestinian Refugees from the Nahr El-Bared Refugee Camp: Findings from a survey of 999 families

This report provides statistics based rimarily on a field survey of 999 Palestinian families displaced from the Nahr El-Bared refugee camp outside the city of Tripoli.

Participatory approaches to improving safety, health and working conditions in informal economy workplaces. Experiences of Cambodia,...

Participatory training programmes are increasingly applied in Asia for supporting grassroots initiatives in informal economy workplaces to improve safety, health and working conditions. These participatory programmes are easy to apply and...

Report - Safe and healthy workplaces - Making decent work a reality