INTRODUCTION In Italy, Tubercolosis (TB) has increasingly become a disease for specific population subgroups such as immigrants. The objective of this paper is to describe the trend in TB incidence from 1999 to 2008 in Umbria: a low-incidence Italian region with high immigrants rates. METHODS Data were obtained from the Regional Information System for Infectious Diseases. Using a linear regre...

On the example of Lebanon, features functioning system hiring foreign workers (kafala) in Arab countries are considered. In this applies to domestic workers, especially women. However, employers often do not fulfill their obligations under contract. addition, economic crisis that broke out country made its own adjustments.

Imagine that you get such certain awesome experience and knowledge by only reading a book. How can? It seems to be greater when a book can be the best thing to discover. Books now will appear in printed and soft file collection. One of them is this book a social worker s reflections on power privilege and oppression guest editorial personal account. It is so usual with the printed books. Howeve...

This paper examines the effects that changes in the Chinese government’s methods of labor control have had on rural migrant workers in the Guangdong province. The situation of rural migrant workers in China resembles that of foreign migrant workers in other countries, because institutional barriers such as the hukou (household registration) system prevent rural migrants from becoming permanent ...

Foreign-born workers in the United States suffer high rates of workplace injuries and accidents. Both for workers who are unauthorized to work in the United States and for those who are present legally under guest worker programs, access to workers' compensation benefits presents nearly insurmountable barriers. Some of these are longstanding, such as employer retaliation and aggressive litigati...

To determine the prevalence and pattern of occupational ocular injuries in sawmill workers in Nigeria. A cross-sectional study of sawmill workers was carried out using pretested questionnaires. Ocular examination was done on site with a pen torch, portable hand-held slit lamp bio-microscope and direct ophthalmoscope. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS 16) was used to analyze the ...

FARM WORKERS, a declining sector of the work force for fifty years or more, are excluded from the protection of most Federal and State labor protective legislation and are covered only in part by the basic social security system. Few have workmen’s compensation protection (except in about a dozen States, including California) 1 and fewer than 25,000 are protected by unemployment insurance.2 Bes...

Most papers on returns to languages are concerned with immigrants. We use the European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) to infer returns on non-native languages by non-immigrants in nine countries of the European Union. We differ from the few other studies that deal with the same problem in three respects. First, we correct for time-dependent measurement errors in self-reporting as sugge...

Although the Korean economy became severely depressed because of the financial crisis in November 1997, most foreign migrant workers in the country opted to stay rather than return to their home countries. This study examined the causes of their relative immobility at both the macro- and microlevel through the use of government statistics and survey data. The first section of this study explo...

BACKGROUND This study identifies the percentage of opioids prescribed for compensated workplace conditions in Manitoba, Canada and whether Workers Compensation Board (WCB) status is associated with higher prescription opioid doses. METHODS Opioid prescriptions for WCB recipients were linked with databases housed at the Manitoba Center for Health Policy. Duration of continuous opioid prescript...