The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with reproduction rights organizations may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. Visit Rethinking monetary and financial policy : practical suggestions for monitoring financial stability while generating employment and poverty The designations emp...

The International Labour Office welcomes such applications. Libraries, institutions and other users registered with reproduction rights organizations may make copies in accordance with the licences issued to them for this purpose. Visit http://www.ifrro.org to find the reproduction rights organization in your country. The designations employed in ILO publications, which are in conformity with U...

7. The meeting was opened by Mr. S.K. Jam, Deputy Director-General, on behalf of the Director-General of the ILO. Having welcomed the participants, Mr. Jam emphasised the importance attached by the ILO to the question of ensuring in member States a sound development of social security systems, especially those designed to provide medical care guarantees to the population. For this purpose, stud...

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 ...

This document enjoys copyright protection through the sponsoring organisations of the ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Joint Programme on Workplace Violence in the Health Sector. As an ILO/ICN/WHO/PSI Joint Programme Working Paper, the study is meant as a preliminary document and circulated to stimulate discussion and to obtain comments. The responsibility for opinions expressed in this study rests solely with ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine patterns in asbestos-induced lung diseases found in older, less exposed workers. DESIGN Review of a database evaluating lung function, smoking status, form of asbestos-induced lung disease, and radiograph abnormalities. SETTING Outpatient clinic. PARTICIPANTS A total of 3383 asbestos-exposed workers referred for independent medical evaluation, including contr...

Over its almost ninety years of existence, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted 188 conventions that defi ne international labour standards in a wide variety of areas, such as limits on working time, occupational heath and safety standards, employment policy, and basic working conditions for specifi c categories of workers. For ILO conventions to have legal status and be enfo...

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in detecting subclinical morphological changes caused by asbestos exposure. Conventional chest radiographs according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) categories 0-11 and spirometric data were compared with MRI in 17 men with mean (+/-2SD) asbestos exposure time of 24.6+/-13.0 yrs. Mean age wa...

The main purpose of this paper is to present the importance of Interactive Learning Objects (ILO) to improve the teaching-learning process by assuring a constant interaction among teachers and students, which in turn, allows students to be constantly supported by the teacher. The paper describes the ontology that defines the ILO available on the Internet. Besides, it shows the implementation of...