Compte Rendu
Title | Compte Rendu PDF eBook |
Author | New Brunswick Federation of Labour. Convention |
Publisher | |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Labor |
ISBN |
The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada
Title | The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Bob Barnetson |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1926836006 |
Workplace injuries are common, avoidable, and unacceptable. The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada reveals how employers and governments engage in ineffective injury prevention efforts, intervening only when necessary to maintain standard legitimacy. Barnetson sheds light on this faulty system, highlighting the way in which employers create dangerous work environments yet pour billions of dollars into compensation and treatment. Examining this dynamic clarifies the way in which production costs are passed on to workers in the form of workplace injuries.
Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Title | Costs of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses PDF eBook |
Author | J. Paul Leigh |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780472110810 |
As the debate over health care reform continues, costs have become a critical measure in the many plans and proposals to come before us. Knowing costs is important because it allows comparisons across such disparate health conditions as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, heart disease, and cancer. This book presents the results of a major study estimating the large and largely overlooked costs of occupational injury and illness--costs as large as those for cancer and over four times the costs of AIDS. The incidence and mortality of occupational injury and illness were assessed by reviewing data from national surveys and applied an attributable-risk-proportion method. Costs were assessed using the human capital method that decomposes costs into direct categories such as medical costs and insurance administration expenses, as well as indirect categories such as lost earnings and lost fringe benefits. The total is estimated to be $155 billion and is likely to be low as it does not include costs associated with pain and suffering or of home care provided by family members. Invaluable as an aid in the analysis of policy issues, Costs of Occupational Injuryand Illness will serve as a resource and reference for economists, policy analysts, public health researchers, insurance administrators, labor unions and labor lawyers, benefits managers, and environmental scientists, among others. J. Paul Leigh is Professor in the School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis. Stephen Markowitz, M.D., is Professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School. Marianne Fahs is Director of the Health Policy Research Center, Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University. Philip Landrigan, M.D., is Wise Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York.
Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk
Title | Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk PDF eBook |
Author | Suzanne H. Reuben |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2010-10 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1437934218 |
Though overall cancer incidence and mortality have continued to decline in recent years, cancer continues to devastate the lives of far too many Americans. In 2009 alone, 1.5 million American men, women, and children were diagnosed with cancer, and 562,000 died from the disease. There is a growing body of evidence linking environmental exposures to cancer. The Pres. Cancer Panel dedicated its 2008¿2009 activities to examining the impact of environmental factors on cancer risk. The Panel considered industrial, occupational, and agricultural exposures as well as exposures related to medical practice, military activities, modern lifestyles, and natural sources. This report presents the Panel¿s recommend. to mitigate or eliminate these barriers. Illus.
Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook
Title | Growing Smart Legislative Guidebook PDF eBook |
Author | William Klein |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 1998-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 0788170325 |
Working Mother
Title | Working Mother PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2002-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Provincial Solidarities
Title | Provincial Solidarities PDF eBook |
Author | David Frank |
Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1927356237 |
Provincial Solidarities tells the story of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour--part of the history of working class struggles in Canada.