BACKGROUND Global labour markets continue to undergo significant transformations resulting from socio-political instability combined with rises in structural inequality, employment insecurity, and poor working conditions. Confronted by these challenges, global institutions are providing policy guidance to protect and promote the health and well-being of workers. This article provides an account...

Governments need to create more jobs in the health sector to boost their economies and make progress in achieving their health goals, according to the High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. In its final report released last month, the commission, co-chaired by President François Hollande of France and President Jacob Zuma of South Africa, made 10 recommendations to addr...

The purpose of the current study was to evaluate psychometric properties Chinese-language version Decent Work Scale (Duffy et al., 2017). An exploratory factor analysis conducted with a randomly selected proportion sample ( n = 291) and resulted in five factors: safe conditions, access healthcare, adequate compensation, time rest values match between organizations communities. A confirmatory pe...

The daily life of a common man revolves around various forms of appliances/gadgets he uses throughout the day such as a mobile phone, laptop, printer, microwave oven, washing machine, etc. Although these appliances/gadgets are taken by most of the people for granted, the problem occurs when any of these things do not work as they are expected to. Getting them to the repair shops for every small...

The horrific fire at Grenfell Tower may prove to be a landmark in the national consciousness. Many of our problems are in plain sight. We’re so used to them that they seem unwieldy, just “the way things are.” The tower block that is now a tomb housed many immigrants on whom London depends—working in jobs that mean antisocial hours, hard graft, and low wages. The social housing was owned by the ...

Families play central roles in the HIV/AIDS pandemic, caring for both orphaned children and the ill. This extra caregiving depletes two family resources essential for supporting children: time and money. We use recent data from published studies in sub-Saharan Africa to illustrate deficits and document community responses. In Botswana, parents caring for the chronically ill had less time for th...