Women and occupational health

Book : Women and occupational health

Author : * Penny Kane

Language : English

Library : Health-Safety-Environment

Publish Place : Geneva

Publish Date : January 1999

Publisher : World Health Organization WHO

Book Number : 1672

INDEX

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction: Women and Work in a Changing Environment
Penny Kane
2. Women's Representation in the Workforce
Penny Kane
3. Understanding Occupational Disease in Women Workers
Karen Messing and Jeanne M. Stellman
4. Issues in Occupational Mortality of Women
Lado Ruzicka
5. Occupational Morbidity
Penny Kane
(Case Study: Vietnam: Martha Morrow, Ngyuen Thi Thorn, Jo-Anne Rayner-Smith.
6. Paid Work, Gender and Health
Lorraine Dennerstein
7. Household Labour and Health
Carme Valls-Llabet, Gloria Borras, Lesley Doyal and Teresa Torns
8. Migration, Workforce and Health
Penny Kane
9. Reproductive Health and Occupational Hazards Among Women Workers Irena Figa-Talamanca
10. The Health of Care Providers
Penny Kane
11. Sex Workers and Health
Libby Plumridge
(Case study: Sex workers in Melbourne, Victoria, Priscillla Pyett)
12. Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Kaisa Kauppinen
Bibliography.