International Labor Organization at Montreal

The International Labor Organization : Paradox and Promise

The International Labor Organization (ILO) strives to achieve good and admirable goals. The mission of the ILO is to advance opportunities for “decent and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity.” 1 But the ILO and similar organizations work in a very challenging environment. They are not governments and, hence, do not have direct law-making authority. They ...

Discussion of Reports at the 42nd UITP International Congress in Montreal

Asbestos and Asbestos-related Diseases in Vietnam: In reference to the International Labor Organization/World Health Organization National Asbestos Profile

This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International Labor Organization/World Health Organization National Asbestos Profile. The Center of Asbestos Resource was established by the Vietnamese Healt...

Roentgenographic underestimation of early asbestosis by International Labor Organization classification. Analysis of data and probabilities.

We analyzed the limitations of the International Labor Organization (ILO) classification of chest roentgenograms in predicting the presence of histologically determined early asbestosis. The ILO system is arbitrary, without histologic correlates, and does not consider the asbestos exposure history or clinical and laboratory information. We present data from the literature and our own work which...

9th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP), Montreal, Canada

Speech production is part of the larger motor control system, and as such can be organized into coordinative structures with other motor behaviors that can then be parameterized as single functional units. Previous work has shown the magnitude of movements in coordinated speech and finger tapping covaries across repetitions. The current study expands on this previous work to examine the tempora...