Selected ILO & joint publications

Health and Safety in health services

HIV/AIDS

• Joint ILO/WHO guidelines on health services and HIV/AIDS - pdf, 1,260k
  Geneva, 2005.
  

Workplace violence

• Framework Guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector. The training manual - pdf, 1,510k
  Joint ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Programme on Workplace violence in the health sector, Geneva, 2005.
  
• Framework Guidelines for addressing workplace violence in the health sector - pdf, 777k
  Joint ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Programme on Workplace violence in the health sector, Geneva, 2002
  
• The relationship between work stress and workplace violence in the health sector - pdf, 500k
  Working paper of the Joint ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Programme on Workplace violence in the health sector, Geneva, 2003.
  
• Workplace violence in the health sector, Country case studies: Brazil, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Portugal, South Africa, Thailand and an additional Australian study - Synthesis Report - pdf, 325k
  di Martino, Vittorio. Working paper of the Joint ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Programme on Workplace violence in the health sector, Geneva, 2002.
  
• Workplace violence in the health sector: State of the Art - pdf, 391k
  Cooper, Cary L. and Swandson, Naomi (Eds.). Working paper of the Joint ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Programme on Workplace violence in the health sector, Geneva, 2002.
  

SARS

• The impact of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) on health personnel - pdf, 225k.
  Wiskow, Christiane. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.206, Geneva, 2003.
  

Migration

• Health worker migration flows in Europe: Overview and case studies in selected CEE countries (Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia and Croatia) - pdf, 746k
  Christiane Wiskow. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.245, Geneva, 2006.
  
• Migration of health workers: Country case study Philippines - pdf, 413k
  Institute of Health Policy and Development Studies, Manila. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.236, Geneva, 2005.
  
• International migration of health workers: Labour and social issues - pdf, 391k
  Bach, Stephen. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.209, Geneva, 2003.
  

Reforms in the health services

• Decentralization and Privatization of Municipal Services: The case of health services - pdf, 201k
  Bach, Stephen. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.164, Geneva, 2001
  
• Public service reforms and their impact on health sector personnel; Critical questions: a tool for action - pdf, 355k
  Document also available in Russian - pdf, 362k, and Arabic - pdf, 420k. Geneva, 2000.
  
• Public service reforms and their impact on health sector personnel: Case studies on Cameroon - pdf, 233k; Colombia - pdf, 313k; Jordan - pdf, 92k; Philippines - pdf, 175k; Poland - pdf, 386k; Uganda - pdf, 284k.
  ILO and WHO. Geneva, 2000.
  

Social dialogue in the health services

• Social dialogue in the health services: The handbook for practitioners - pdf, 621k.
  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 2005.
  
• Social dialogue in the health services: A tool for practical guidance - pdf, 389k.
  Sectoral Activities Programme, ILO, 2004.
  
• Social Dialogue in the Health Services: Institutions, capacity and effectiveness - pdf, 438k
  Note on the Proceedings - pdf 291k
  Reports for and of the Joint Meeting on Social Dialogue in Health Services: Institutions, Capacity and Effectiveness, Geneva, 2002.
  
• Social dialogue in the health sector: Case study Bulgaria - pdf, 330k
  Dr. L. Tomev, Dr. N. Daskalova, Ms. T. Mihailova. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.235, Geneva, 2005.
  
• Social dialogue in the health sector: Case study Ghana - pdf, 262k
  Dr. Delanyo Y. Dovlo. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.234, Geneva, 2005.
  
• Social dialogue in health services – Case studies in Brazil, Canada, Chile, United Kingdom - pdf, 257k
  Lethbridge, Jane. Sectoral Activities Programme Working Paper, WP.189, Geneva, 2002.