Approaches to Universal Health Coverage and Occupational Health and Safety for the Informal Workforce in Developing Countries Workshop Summary (2016) / Chapter Skim
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As is apparent in the mix of members that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Public–Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety, there are many different actors and stakeholders from the public and private sectors who can play a role. Throughout the workshop, many speakers and forum members stressed addressing the issue from the perspective of grassroots, small-scale, innovative approaches rather than looking only at large, top-down initiatives.
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• artner with the private sector to provide safety and the health services, P including training for workers and employers in risk assessment and health hazard assessment and the development of low-cost tools and solutions. (Chatterjee, Ujita)
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To continue to move forward and accelerate progress, Chatterjee suggested convening similar workshops in different regions and countries to further the dialogue and sharing among stakeholders. Marty Chen endorsed this idea and added that two different types of meetings could be useful: smaller, more technical meetings centered on occupational health and safety, and workshops like this one in each developing region, with the same mix of participants across disciplines, sectors, and countries.
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Somsak Chunharas said that in the area of UHC and OHS for informal workers, there are two important issues related to health system development: ensuring that countries with UHC include OHS as an integral part of their benefit package, and the role of the health sector, regardless of whether there is UHC, in raising awareness among multiple actors, including the ministry of labor and the private sector, about the need for OHS aiming at protecting the health of informal workers. Kathy Taylor from the University of Notre Dame pointed out that within the current draft of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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Chen suggested that there may be an opportunity for SEWA to convene exposure dialogues concerning occupational health and safety. In an exposure dialogue, a select group of people spend 2 or 3 days and nights with a working poor person in the informal economy, living with and working alongside him or her.
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UHC is inclusive of all, including informal populations. While the inclusion of informal populations is often thought of as a "last mile" question within UHC, this is not the case when the informal sector makes up the majority of a country, as it often does in developing countries.
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Myers suggested that rethinking how to organize these initiatives and stakeholders is a type of recombinant innovation, taking existing elements and combining them into new and more effective ways that give greater power and greater results to what we are doing. The Rockefeller Foundation is exploring opportunities for recombinant innovation for meeting the health needs of informal workers.
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