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conclusions and recommendations
• slaves and bonded labourers must be deemed protected by
occupational health laws notwithstanding legal status.
Health and health equity among workers should be a matter
of public health, hence they should be guaranteed to working
people independent of their conditions of employment. Here
the strategy and model of primary health care has a capacity
and a responsibility to reach these sectors with preventive and
curative interventions, as well as support for reinsertion into
work.
• Provision of universal health care coverage, including
occupational health and safety programs integrated into primary
health care, especially family health care programmes.
• Expand coverage with basic occupational health services
through occupational health legislation and services
(intersectoral occupational health policy).
• Establish worker health centre networks or integration
activities for workers in the primary health care sector of the
public health system.
• opening of occupational Health offices to monitor
occupational diseases.
• Development of occupational training programs that include
occupational health and safety contents, targeting informal
workers and social movements.
• strengthen enforcement of occupational health legislation
(e.g., inspectorate).
unions play a fundamental role in reducing employment and
work-related health inequalities. unions can generalise collectively
negotiated international or national protections.
• include occupational health dimension in collective
bargaining (e.g., right to know).
• Expand coverage of occupational health services (include
temporary workers, self-employed, small business).
social movements and grassroots community activities may
play a fundamental role towards the goal of reaching fair
employment. Evidence from some countries attests that
community actions can act as an important adjunct/impetus to
government measures (e.g., living wage campaigns in targeted
us cities).
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