a priority to improve health equity coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic.1 Public health The purpose of this issue brief is to: practitioners and organizations have a role • Define and differentiate between in promoting decent work and denouncing employment conditions and working harmful health impacts of employment conditions, and summarize key evidence conditions. [...] • a comprehensive overview of key social • Explore decent work as a common goal, and structural determinants of health; an agenda for change and a movement and in Canada that public health can engage • recommendations for evidence-informed in to address the harms of precarious public health action on the key social and employment (SECTION 4). [...] and illness prevention.16 Paying attention to occupational health and safety vulnerability can help employers, governments, workers Health impacts of working conditions and public health understand, measure and Hazardous workplace exposures “get under take action on modifiable characteristics that the skin” and impact health in many ways, increase risk of work injury and illness for from the envir. [...] Building power among conditions is also a direct consequence of and with workers to be able to influence sustained efforts on the part of employers employment and workplace conditions, to decrease collective power (unionization) building relationships with worker-organizing and offload the responsibility of social and groups, and building awareness of the impacts economic security (including occup. [...] The Decent Work and Health Network continues to build The Decent Work and Health Network was able to awareness and campaign for decent work policies successfully build relationships with public health that will enhance the health of workers, especially leaders to convey the need for effective paid sick for temporary agency, racialized and women days policy.
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