Occupational Risk

Burden of Occupational Illness: U.N. Agencies Sound Alarm

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 26th, 1999

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Office (ILO) called for immediate, "ethically correct and economically sound" measures to improve the working conditions of the world's labor force of some 2,500 million people.

Unless working conditions are improved, governments would face serious and costly consequences, warned the two agencies. Their warning came in the wake of the International Conference on Occupational Health, which opened in Helsinki, Finland.

According to WHO and ILO, the global burden of occupational diseases and injuries may increase considerably in the first half of the 21st century. Contributing factors...

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