Table of Contents

Preface Overview of Occupational Health Problems Development of an Occupational Health and Safety Program in Third World Countries by Jorma Rantanen Occupational Health Problems in the Manufacturing Industries of Malaysia by Geok Lin Khor Occupational Health in a Province of Colombia by Oscar Nieto-Zapata Effects of Occupational Exposure on Chronic Respiratory Illness in Beijing, China by Xiping Xu Analysis of Occupational Health Policies Occupational Health Information Systems in India by Ramesh Durvasula Private Doctors and Occupational Health in India by Mukund Uplekar Occupational Health Policies in Costa Rica by Corinne Morsink National Strategies for Occupational Health Policy Problems, Policies, and Strategies for Occupational Health and Safety in Sri Lanka by S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe Strategy and Policy for Occupational Health in South Africa by Jonathan E. Myers and Ian Macun The Nicaraguan Experiment in Occupational Health by Aurora Velasquez and Robert McConnell International Strategies The Role of the ILO in Promoting Occupational Health and Safety in Developing Countries by Kazutaka Kogi NIOSH Involvement with Developing Countries by Donald E. Ward, Jr. International Research Strategies to Improve Occupational Health Conditions in the Third World by David C. Christiani Bibliography Index

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This volume focuses on the problems and policies associated with Third World workers and occupation-linked health conditions. The writers identify major obstacles that block effective implementation of occupational health and safety measures in developing countries and provide examples of successful steps taken to improve workers' health environment.

About the Author

MICHAEL R. REICH is Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Associate Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. His major research interests are health policy analysis and the political economy of health and development, with particular concern for environmental and occupational health issues. He has edited International Cooperation for Health and Health, Nutrition, and Economic Crises, both of which were published by Auburn House.

TOSHITERU OKUBO is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan. In addition to his own research on occupational health problems in Japan, Dr. Okubo has directed training programs on occupational health problems in Third World countries, sponsored by the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with consulting experience on these problems in several Asian countries.