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GOHNET
NEWSLETTER N°26
Inside this issue
News from WHO ................ ..............2
News from WHO collaborating centres and partners .......... .............7
Publications ……………...……... .........12
Upcoming events ............... .............13
Useful WHO links ............... .............14
IMPROVING WORKERS' HEALTH WORLDWIDE: Implementing the WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers' Health
Dear Reader, GOHNET is back! In this issue, we provide you with recent updates from the WHO Worker Health Team, international workshops and projects. We appreciate the special support of CDC NIOSH Global Programme in preparing this issue. We hope you enjoy your reading and we promise to maintain our efforts to deliver GOHNET to you more frequently. WHO Workers’ Health Team
August 2017
New members of the WHO Global Worker’s Health Team
News from WHO
Dr Frank PEGA, a citizen of Germany and New Zealand, holds a
PhD in epidemiology and health economics, with a
specialisation in interventions for healthy environments. He is
a Technical Officer in the WHO Global Programme on
Workers’Health, where he is responsible for workers’ health
metrics and monitoring, estimating burden of disease from
occupational risk factors, and strengthening linkages between
workers’ health and the social determinants of health,
including a programme on the health of workers in the
informal economy.
Dr Shubhendu MUDGAL is from India and holds a MD with
post-graduate specialization in occupational safety, health and
development. He has served as Occupational Health and
Safety Coordinator in WHO Country Ofdfice in Liberia during
Ebola Response in 2015-16 and is now associated with the
WHO as a consultant. His main tasks are developing tools and
building capacities for occupational health and safety of
health workers and responders in acute public health events
and emergencies.
Ms Aubrey MUSNGI-ANOUAR is from the Philippines. She
provides administrative assistance to Workers’ Health and
other teams in the WHO Interventions for Healthy
Environments Unit.
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Frank Pega
Shubhendu Mudgal
Aubrey Musngi-Anuar
The other members of the WHO Workers’ Health Team are: Dr Ivan D. Ivanov—Team Leader and Dr Evelyn Kortum—
Technical Officer, who has resumed her full time functions on workers’ health after serving for 2 years as President of the
WHO Staff Association Committee.
WHO Workshop on capacity building on occupational safety and health
in outbreaks and public health emergencies in Africa, Johannesburg,
South Africa
News from WHO (cont.)
To enhance capacities of many African countries in
preparedness of their country health systems against
occupational safety and health hazards and risks during
emergencies and outbreaks, an inter-country workshop on
occupational safety and health (OSH) in the preparedness and
response to outbreaks and public health emergencies was
organized in at Johannesburg, South Africa, from 14 to 16
June, 2016. The workshop was organized by World Health
Organization with inputs from the International Labour
Organization, and the WHO collaborating centres for
Occupational Health at the National Institute of Occupational
Health, South Africa, US National Institute of Occupational
Safety and Health and the University of Maryland.
The overall purpose of the workshop was to enable high
priority African countries to organize the protection of safety
and health of emergency responders and health workers in the
case of outbreaks and public health emergencies.
The specific objectives of the workshop included:
to build countries’ capacities for integrating occupational
safety and health in the preparedness and response to
outbreaks and public health emergencies, and
to strengthen the collaboration between national
occupational health programs and the mechanisms for
preparedness and response
to train national public health officers in developing
national programs for occupational safety and health of
health workers and to implement tools for workplace
improvement in healthcare facilities.
The workshop was attended by national public health officers
responsible for occupational safety and health and for outbreak
response from 17 countries (Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso,
Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritania,
Niger, Senegal, Tanzania and Togo), WHO collaborating
centres and research partners from Benin, South Africa,
Tanzania and the United States, as well as WHO and ILO
experts.
The training sessions were conducted by experts from WHO,
ILO and WHO collaborating centres on Occupational Health.
The sessions were interactive and focussed on practical
problems faced by African countries that were discussed
during various training sessions. The sessions on the first two
days covered OSH aspects such as the need for protection of
health and emergency workers in emergencies and outbreaks,
overview of OSH hazards and risks faced in health facilities
and community during outbreaks and other emergencies,
prevention and control strategies and actions etc. The third day
of the workshop focussed on awareness creation among
participants through HealthWISE, the training and capacity
building tool on work improvement in healthcare facilities,
developed jointly by WHO and ILO.
Submitted by: Shubhendu Mudgal
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Meeting facilitators from WHO: Adrienne Rashford, Nada
Osseiran and Ivan Ivanov
Advancing the Regional CAREX project in Latina America and the Caribbean and the evidence on occupational cancer
News from WHO (cont.)
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
is the specialized cancer agency of the World Health
Organization. Its mission is to coordinate and conduct research
on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of
carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer
control. IARC’s 50th Anniversary Conference was held on June
7-10 in Lyon, France.
The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) presented on
the advances of the Regional CAREX project. The project
focuses on creating national occupational carcinogen exposure
matrixes and surveillance systems in the region (objective #4,
2008-2017 WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health
[WHA 60.26]). A total of seven national CAREX projects
from Latin America and the Caribbean were summarized in the
poster presented by PAHO. Workplace exposures to cancer-
causing agents (solar radiation, diesel exhaust, tobacco smoke,
silica, benzene, pesticides, asbestos, etc.) are pervasive in this
region. This was the first time multi-country results showed
how many workers are exposed, in which industry and at what
levels.
Using the CAREX methodology, data will allow PAHO to
characterize exposed workers, inform the primary prevention
of occupational cancer, and support specific initiatives like the
WHO’s global campaign to eliminate asbestos-related diseases.
The project involves multiple government and academic
organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean with the
support of research and technical expertise from the
Occupational Cancer Research Centre (OCRC), a WHO
Collaborating Centre on Occupational and Environmental
Cancer (CAN-89), and the CAREX Canada project.
The OCRC had a strong presence at the IARC conference
where Dr. Paul Demers and his team led or co-authored ten
posters and four oral presentations, including their
contributions for the poster presented with and by PAHO.
Other presentations (clarify whose presentations) addressed
key issues such as pesticide exposures and lymphatic and
hematopoietic cancers, the burden of cancers attributable to
occupational radon and solar ultraviolet radiation exposures,
and case studies from CAREX Canada’s knowledge translation
programme on preventing occupational and environmental
carcinogen exposures. These projects are relevant to
implementing PAHO’s regional Action Plan and WHO’s
Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health.
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Julietta Rodríguez-Guzmán (L) Paul Demers (R)
Summited by: Julietta Rodriguez , regional advisor on workers’ health, Pan-American Health Organization, WHO Regional Office for the Americas
PAHO’s Workers’ Health Team/ Sustainable Development
and Health Equity Special Program (SDE) published a
progress report on the Regional Action Plan on Workers’
Health from 1999. This work led to update of the America’s
Action Plan on Workers’ Health plan taking into account
the the challenges and changes in the world of work in the
XXI Century, and their impact on workers’ health and
productivity for the regional workforce. (cont)
The plan aims to “strengthen the health sector’s response,
in coordination with other stakeholder sectors, in order to
provide comprehensive workers’ health services, improve
work environments, increase efforts to promote workers’
health, and reduce health inequalities by implementing
updated policies, plans, and regulations”.
To achieve this goal, Member States committed to
“strengthen their technical and institutional capacities;
their initiatives to prevent and control the conditions that
cause occupational injuries, diseases and deaths; and the
promotion of health and wellbeing in the workforce. The
leadership of the health authorities, in harmony and
collaboration with the ministries of labor and other
economic sectors, will make it possible to lay the
groundwork health in all policies, close the inequality gaps
in workers’ health, and improve universal access to health
and universal health coverage for all workers”.
To address the issues highlighted in the situation analyses,
the plan contains “the following strategic lines of action to
support member States , as appropriate, taking into account
their context, needs, and priorities:
Develop and update legislation and technical regulations
on workers’ health (in harmony with ILO Conventions
and WHO recommendations, and promoting national
multi-sectorial approaches).
Identify, evaluate, prevent and control hazardous
conditions and exposures in the workplace (Four
sectors were identified by their critical impact on
workers’ health; and the programs agreed with ILO for
elimination of silicosis, asbestos related diseases,
occupational cancer, mental health mental y workplace
violence, etc. will be pursued).
Increase access to and coverage of health services for
workers (addressing the right to health and ILO’s basic
rights at work).
Promote health, wellbeing and healthy work in the
workplace (advocating for wellbeing and life quality
for productive adults during their life course).
Strengthening diagnostic capacity, information systems,
epidemiological surveillance and research in the field
of occupational diseases, injuries and deaths (trying to
fill the data gap of our region).
These lines of action have specific objectives and goals, all
of which are in harmony with the global policies of WHO
and ILO; and with the Sustainable Development Goals
2030 (particularly SDG-1, SDG-3 and SDG-8). It also
seeks to advance on the construction of information
systems capable of recording all damages caused to
workers’ health, the inequities they face, and some positive
indicators including workers’ satisfaction, motivation and
productivity.
At country level, PAHO and WHO are jointly working with
Member States to build Workers’ health national outlooks,
that will determine the baseline of the situation of workers’
health. Based on their results, countries will be able to
design and implement National Action Plans on workers’
health.
PAHO’s Workers’ health team as part of the Special
Program on Sustainable Development and Health Equity
provides technical assistance and all the support necessary
so that Members States can achieve their mission of
safeguarding workers lives, Health and wellbeing, and
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Summited by: Julietta Rodriguez , regional advisor on workers’ health, Pan-American Health Organization, WHO Regional Office for the Americas
The America’s Action Plan on Workers’ Health 2015-2025
News from WHO (cont.)
Scaling Up Workers’ Coverage with Essential Interventions and Basic Occupational Health Services in Asia
News from WHO (cont.)
The 60th World Health Assembly in 2007 adopted Resolution
WHA 60.26 “Workers’ Health: Global Plan of Action” and
urged the Member States to work towards full coverage of all
workers, and particularly farmers, migrants, and workers in
small enterprises and informal sector to essential interventions
and basic health services for the prevention and control of
occupational and work-related diseases and injuries. The ILO
Convention No. 161 on Occupational Health Services also calls
for the organization of occupational health services for all
working people in the world. However, according to the
International Commission on Occupational Health more than
80% workers worldwide do not have access to occupational
health services.
Thailand has accumulated a wealth of experience in organizing
the provision of essential interventions for occupational health
to farmers and workers in the informal sector through the
network of primary care units, including capacity building,
working tools and methods and supervision. Other developing
countries in Asia, such as Viet Nam, China, Sri Lanka and
Indonesia have also embarked on reforming their occupational
health and primary care services to reach out to uncovered
workers in the informal sector and small enterprises.
The purpose of this workshop, held in Bangkok 29 August-1
September 2017, was to contribute to scaling up the coverage
of workers with essential interventions and basic health
services for occupational health protection in Asian countries.
The particular objectives were:
to review progress made and countries’ experience in
providing workers, particularly in farms, informal sector,
small enterprises and migrants with essential occupational
health interventions and basic services,
to develop recommendations for scaling up coverage of
workers with essential interventions and basic
occupational health services for prevention and control of
occupational and work-related diseases and injuries in
countries.
The participants were national experts from Asian emerging
economy countries dealing with planning and delivery of
occupational health and primary care services and experts from
relevant international organizations and WHO collaborating
centres for occupational health.
Dr. Amnuay Gajeena, Director General of Department of
Disease Control, Thailand, convened and chaired the meeting
of over 30 participants from 10 countries. Participants
included representatives from ministries of health and labor.
Highlights from the meeting included a presentations from
Suwit Wibulpolprasert, Public Health Specialist, Thailand
Ministry of Public Health on universal coverage and the need
for “advocates” from civil society and “enablers” from
government agencies; Dr Somkiat Siriruttananpruek from
Thailand described their project for providing occupational
health services through primary care units; and each country
presented on their activities, progress, and needs with
particular consideration for informal work and scaling up
workers’ health. The final highlight of the meeting was a visit
to two PCUs in Suphanburi Province and in Samuthprakarn
Province, that primarily serve agricultural communities. The
PCUs had staff with expertise in workplace health and
provided a clear vision for the importance of how work relates
to health.
The meeting recommended strategic actions by WHO and the
health systems to further protect and promote health of
working people in the context of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG1 on poverty elimination,
SDG 3 on health and wellbeing, SDG 8 on decent work and
economic growth and SDG 13 on climate change.
Submitted by: Leslie Nickels, NIOSH
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News from WHO collaborating centres and partners
Coordination group of the global network of WHO collaborating
centres for occupational health
In 2016 WHO published the document “Global network of
WHO collaborating centres for
occupational health: Ways of Working” to provide guidance on
the mission, composition,
meetings, coordination and collaborative workplace of the
network. This document is part of an effort to maintain and
strengthen the network of collaborating centres for
occupational health (CCs). The Ways of Working document
specifies that NIOSH, along with the WHO Global Workers’
Programme, coordinate the Global network of WHO
collaborating centres for occupational health. As part of this
coordination effort, In September of 2017 NIOSH hosted the
first meeting of the Coordination Group, representatives from
CCs responsible for coordination of the priority areas and the
WHO responsible officers, in Washington, D.C.
During this meeting members of the coordination group
discussed the implementation and evaluation of the priority
areas outlined in the Global Plan of Action on Workers' Health,
2008-2017.
The coordination group also discussed effective mechanisms
for engaging and informing CCs of new, tools and information.
This newsletter is a platform for this information and NIOSH is
pleased to serve as the guest editor and looking forward to
coordinating and promoting future engagement opportunities.
NIOSH applauds WHO for its commitment to improving
worker health around the globe, establishing the Coordination
Group, and engaging the CCs in the process.
NIOSH’s work with WHO supports its commitment to
improving worker health both domestically and internationally.
The Coordination group will hold regfular online meetings.
The next step will be the consolidations of the technical
workplan in the individual priority areas. The coordination
group will start also work with WHO to develop the next
global master plan 2018-2021 to implement the WHO
commitments for action on workers’ health in line with the
Sustainable Development Golas and the ongoing WHO global
initiatives, such as universal health coverage, health
employment and inclusive economic growth, preparedness and
response to public health emergencies, prevention and
management of non-communicable diseases, health and
migration, and climate change, and social determinants of
health
Members of the Coordination Group
Italian National Insurance for Work Accidents and
Occupational Diseases (INAIL) - ITA-81
University of Maryland, School of Medicine - USA-334
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health -
USA-150
Great Lakes Center for Occupational & Environmental
Safety & Health, School of Public Health – USA-216
National Institute for Occupational Health - SOA-27
WHO
Submitted by:
Margaret Kitt, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) , WHO collaborating centre for occupational health
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Meeting of the CC Coordination Group in Washington,
D.C., USA, September 2016
The Terms of Reference (ToR) for collaboration between
WHO and the International Centre for Rural Health of the San
Paolo Hospital of Milano focus on criteria for diagnosis and
compensation of occupational diseases, implementation of
pilot projects for the provision of occupational health in
agriculture and rural areas, and support the promotion of
worker’s health in agriculture. The Centre had significant
activities for each ToR; a collection of sheets addressed at
defining criteria for diagnosis and prevention of diseases listed
in the new ILO list, and completion of selected ICD codes, has
been delivered to ILO and a comprehensive book is in
preparation.
International Congress on Rural Health was organized from 8
to11 September, 2015, in Lodi, Italy. It was attended by 244
delegates from 30 Countries from all the corners of the world,
with the participation of the International Commission on
Occupational Health (collaborating with the organization of the
Event with 3 Scientific Committees), of the World Association
of Medical Doctors (WONCA) and the International
Association of Rural Medicine and Health (IARM). On this
occasion, IARM held its World Congress. In order to join the
International Congress on Rural Health, the “Safety Health and
Welfare in Agro-Food System – SHWA” Congress was moved
by the organisers from Ragusa (Sicilia, Italy) to Lodi. Opening
Lectures were provided by Ivan Ivanov (WHO Headquarters,
Geneva) speaking about “Universal health coverage for rural
and agricultural workers”. Dr, Shengli Niu (ILO, Geneva)
provided a lecture on “The three D jobs in rural areas and the
ILO initiatives”. Among other keynote speakers were Kurt
Streif (IARC), Tania Pekez Pavlisko (WONCA), Jorma
Rantanen and Sergio Iavicoli (ICOH).
The Congress ended with the adoption of “The New Lodi
Declaration on Rural Health”, published in the book of
abstracts (ISBN 978-1207-0-7-WEB). The Lodi Declaration
mainly addresses universal coverage and incorporation of
Occupational Health in primary health care, which are part of
the ToR of the Centre. In this specific field, the Centre has
continued its pilot experience of health care provision to rural
workers of the Region of Lombardy, with a specific effort to
promote collaboration with Rural GPs. The creation of an
“Epidemiologic Observatory” is under discussion, with the aim
of building a tool addressed at providing better estimates of the
burden of disease for risk factor of the regional rural workers
and at harmonizing the health surveillance approach, with a
particular interest in migrants and seasonal workers. As part of
its work to support WHO in protecting and promoting workers’
health in agriculture, ICRH is developing tools adequate for
low-cost high-impact prevention. To date, it is working on
exposure and risk profiles for major hazards in agriculture. Part
of the effort is invested in pesticide exposure and risk profiles,
which are developed starting from original field studies, and
can be used for basic preventive risk assessment. Moreover, to
face the high burden of musculoskeletal diseases in agriculture,
ICRH is developing risk profiles for workers’ biomechanical
overload. In particular, as part of the World Dairy Consortium,
the Centre, in collaboration with the Colorado State University,
is conducting several studies on biomechanical risk in the dairy
sector.
The contribution of the International Centre for Rural Health to the implementa-tion of the WHO global plan of action
Submitted by: Claudio Colosio, Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic and Federica Masci, International Centre for Rural Health of the San Paolo Hospital of Milano and Department of Health Sciences of the University of Milan, WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health
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News from WHO collaborating centres and partners (cont.)
Health services are complex work environments, which can
at times be hazardous. Unsafe working conditions may lead
to attrition of the health workforce. Decent work in the
health sector must include workers’ health and well-being,
since the quality of the work environment can influence the
quality of care provided by health workers.
HealthWISE -- a joint ILO/WHO publication -- is a
practical, participatory quality improvement tool for health
facilities. It encourages managers and staff to work together
to improve workplaces and practices. HealthWISE (Work
Improvement in Health Services) promotes the application
of smart, simple and low-cost solutions leading to tangible
benefits for workers and health services, and ultimately for
patients. The topics are organized in eight modules
addressing occupational safety and health, personnel
management and environmental health issues.
HealthWISE combines action and learning. The Action
Manual helps initiate and sustain changes for improvement,
using a checklist as a workplace assessment tool, designed
for identifying and prioritizing areas of action. Each of the
eight modules illustrates key checkpoints to help guide
action. The accompanying Trainers’ Guide contains
guidance and tools for a training course and is accompanied
by a CD-ROM, which includes a sample PowerPoint
presentation for each of the training sessions.
HealthWISE is designed for use by all who are concerned
with improving workplaces in the health sector, including
health workers and health-care managers, supervisors,
workers’ and employers’ representatives, labour inspectors,
occupational health specialists, trainers and educators.
Implementing HealthWise: Case studies on putting HealthWISE in to action using a practical, participatory quality improvement tool for health facilities.
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News from WHO collaborating centres and partners (cont.)
Available on the web in English, French,
Portuguese and Chinese at
http://www.ilo.org/global/docs/
WCMS_237276/lang--en/index.htm
Available on the web in English, French
and Portuguese at
http://www.ilo.org/global/docs/
WCMS_237278/lang--en/index.htm
The healthcare sector is considered a ‘high-hazard’ industry as
health workers can encounter numerous occupational health
and safety (OHS) hazards within the course of their daily work.
This includes exposure to biological hazards (e.g., tuberculosis,
Hepatitis B), chemical hazards (e.g., sterilants, cleaning
products), physical hazards (e.g., excessive noise, radiation),
ergonomic hazards (e.g., heavy lifting), psychosocial hazards
(e.g., shiftwork, violence) and other basic safety hazards. As
highlighted by the recent Ebola crisis, failure to protect health
workers from hazards such these can have significant negative
consequences on the ability to provide patient care and on the
healthcare system as a whole.
In early 2014, before the Ebola crisis, a team from the
University of Maryland Baltimore’s (UMB) World Health
Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Occupational
Health, led by Dr. Melissa McDiarmid, visited the Gambia to
assess the status of occupational health and safety of health
workers and identify interest and potential partners for
addressing health worker protections. This work laid the
foundation for development of a three-day training curriculum
designed to build the capacity and knowledge of health
workers to address occupational health and safety hazards in
the Gambia using a ‘train-the-trainer’ approach. The
curriculum created by the UMB team was adapted from
existing HealthWISE materials. HealthWISE is a joint
International Labour Organization (ILO), WHO participatory
tool designed to improve workplaces and practices with low-
cost solutions within the health sector.
In early June 2016, partially funded by the UMB’s Global
Health Inter-professional Education Grant Program, Drs.
Melissa McDiarmid and Joanna Gaitens along with a team of
two medical students (Nicole Campion and Wesley Chen), one
social work student (Sarah Gregorini) and one dental student
(Alyssa Ruili) visited the Gambia over a two-week period and
in partnership with the Gambian Ministry of Health (MOH)
and The University of Gambia School of Medicine and Allied
Health Sciences (UTG), delivered the adapted HealthWISE
training to over 30 participants at the Edward Francis Small
Teaching Hospital (EFSTH) in Banjul. Participants included
officers from various departments within the MOH, staff from
EFSTH, representatives from health facilities elsewhere in the
Gambia and public health students from UTG.
The training, while focused on preventing exposures to blood-
borne and respiratory hazards, included an overview of OHS
hazards in the healthcare work setting, small group case studies
and a “walkthrough” of several departments at EFSTH to teach
participants how to identify and address potential hazards. As
part of the training, participants developed actionable plans for
addressing selected hazards and identified indicators that could
be used to gauge the effectiveness of their interventions. In
addition, plans for continued communication and collaboration
among participants to sustain and champion OHS prevention
efforts in the health sector were made.
Adaptation on HealthWISE in Gambia
Submitted by: Melissa McDiarmid and Joanna Gaitens, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health
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News from WHO collaborating centres and partners (cont.)
Participants of the 3-day Workshop on OHS in the
Healthcare Sector, Banjul, Gambia.
The protection and promotion of health at the workplace is one
of the objectives of the WHO Global Plan of Action for
Workers’ Health (2008-2017). Seeking to target the ever-
present threats of TB and HIV through both applying
interventions and increasing capacity in terms of knowledge
and skills, we sought partnerships with local stakeholders and
developed a project in which we could study the
implementation of HealthWISE in Southern Africa.
HealthWISE is a participatory, quality improvement
methodology for healthcare facilities developed by the ILO and
WHO, that aims to improve the occupational health and safety
(OHS) of health workers through implementing simple, cost-
effective solutions to workplace issues.
Our WHO collaborating centre (CC)’s HealthWISE project in
Southern Africa is a three country comparative case study in
selected healthcare facilities in Mozambique, South Africa and
Zimbabwe, in which we are working closely with the South
African National Institute for Occupational Health (NIOH) –
another WHO CC. HealthWISE consists of eight modules, and
this project focuses on Module 3: Biological hazards and
infection control, with special reference to HIV and TB, and
Module 4: Tackling discrimination, harassment and violence at
the workplace.
With representation from all countries involved in the project, a
two-day planning meeting and site visits were conducted in
Zimbabwe and abbreviated meetings and site visits were
conducted in South Africa from February 1-5, 2016. These
meetings served to introduce the project to key stakeholders
and helped to better understand the OHS priorities for health
workers in the different countries, which helped to identify
areas where HealthWISE solutions and strategies might later be
targeted.
Key steps in the planning and development phases include
strengthening partnerships with international, national and local
stakeholders, engaging with local team members and
participants to better understand OHS issues in their
workplaces and to build local capacity, and effectively
developing and communicating a feasible and sustainable plan
that meets both the practical and research needs of those
involved. Training of HealthWISE Champions to empower
local participants with knowledge and skills to recognize and
creatively address workplace issues was identified as an
important factor in these phases. Training-of-trainer workshops
in each country are therefore planned as the next step in this
project. This project adds to the efforts of the WHO of
protecting and promoting health at the workplace, and is a good
example of well-coordinated international efforts aiming at
promoting global health equity in occupational health.
HealthWISE implementation in Southern Africa
Submitted by: Stephanie Parent, Research Coordinator Global Health Research Program University of British Columbia, WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health
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News from WHO collaborating centres and partners (cont.)
Publications
FIOH’s Cochrane Work Group produced Cochrane Reviews in following areas: Clothes and equipment for healthcare staff to prevent Ebola and other highly infective diseases, Workplace interventions to decrease sitting time at work, Interventions for improving employment outcomes in persons with HIV, Interventions to increase the reporting of occupational diseases for physicians and Interventions for improving well-being and reducing work-related stress in teachers. The Review Preventing occupational stress in health care workers was updated.
In response to the outbreak of Zika virus disease WHO developed emergency guidelines to provide recommendations on essential measures to protect the health and safety of operators and other persons involved in emergency vector control of Aedes spp. mosquitoes, including space spraying of insecticides, larvicide application and, in some cases, indoor residual spraying. The document is intended to be used by vector control managers and operators, public health workers, medical professionals, district health officers and ministries of health. Available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese at http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/zika/emergency-vector-control/en/
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and
the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health jointly published
Improving Workers’ Health Across the Globe. This booklet
highlights successful contributions of the Global Network of
WHO Collaborating Centres for Occupational Health to improve
worker health. This success document organizes effective
examples from across the globe using the objectives set in the
Global Plan of Action for Workers’ Health, a plan created to
improve the health of all workers.
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Upcoming events
26-28 April 2018
Dublin
Information session on progress made under the WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health (2008 - 2017) on 6 September 2017, 14 :00 – 17.30 h SGT, Orchid Jr Room, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore The session will provide an opportunity for stakeholders and interested parties to learn about and provide their comments on the progress made under the WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health (2008-2017) To register for the event http://www.who.int/occupational_health/signup/en/ More information http://www.who.int/occupational_health/events/gloabl-plan-action-worker-health/en/
6 SEPT 2017
Singapore
11th
meeting of the global network of WHO collaborating centres for occupational health, 26-28 April 2018, Dublin Ireland The meeting will discuss the work of WHO and its collaborating centres for occupational health to follow up the Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and WHO global initiatives on universal health coverage, health employment and public health emergencies, prevention and management of non-communicable diseases at the workplace, detection and reporting of occupational diseases, health information and metrics,, vulnerable groups of workers
29-4 APRIL—MAY 2018
Dublin Ireland
32nd
International Conference on Occupational Health
The Congress is organized as the triennial congress of the
International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH). The
2017 Congress, focusing on occupational health and well being,
will emphasize translating research to practice.
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http://www.who.int/occupational_health/network/en/
WHO publications:
http://www.who.int/occupational_health/publications/en/
GOHNET NEWSLETTER TEAM
WHO Editor Evelyn Kortum
Technical and language editors Leslie Nickels, Deborah Hoyer and Nura Sadeghpour, CDC NIOSH
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