Housing and health are critical issues for policymakers and the public. Secure and affordable housing, along with quick access to required health and social care, are considered essential services for the public and are key targets for planners. In Ireland, as in many countries, the need to...

Es wird aktuell immer wieder darauf hingewiesen, dass dem Bereich psychische Erkrankungen eine steigende Bedeutung als Ursache für frühzeitiges Ausscheiden aus dem Arbeitsleben zukommt. Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit, Soziales und Konsumentenschutz entschloss sich daher 2012, das Thema...

This report presents results on psychosocial working conditions and health inequalities using data from the 2010 and 2015 European Working Conditions Surveys and the second wave of the 2020 Living, Working and Covid-19 survey. In brief, mean WHO-5 mental health scores declined between 2010 and...

This research project financed by the ETUI pursued two objectives: to estimate the fractions of cardiovascular disease and depression attributable to five different psychosocial work factors, i.e. job strain, effort-reward imbalance, job insecurity, long working hours, and bullying in Europe (35...

The 'gig economy' refers to a market system in which companies or individual requesters hire workers to perform short assignments. These transactions are mediated through online labour platforms, either outsourcing work to a geographically dispersed crowd or allocating work to individuals in a...

In the current coronavirus pandemic, the WHO must gather facts and formulate policy recommendations. However, the interlacing of both tasks within one organization is problematic.

Outside times of crisis, the WHO's voice is seldomly heeded. Its socio-political initiatives are regularly shot down, its actions reduced to policing illness. That is a mistake.

Indonesia's cigarette industry is a significant contributor to employment and tax revenue collection. However, it is also responsible for enormous public health and economic costs, as smoking related health expenditures in Indonesia amount to approximately USD 1.2 billion per year and another...