Empowering the health workforce Strategies to make the most of the digital revolution

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Digital transformation in the health sector is not a simple matter of technical change, but requires adaptive change in human attitudes and skills as well as of legal frameworks and  the organisation of work. 

Global challenges
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Health
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Rehabilitation 2030: A Call for Action Meeting report

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This report follows the meeting, Rehabilitation 2030: A Call for Action, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO would like to express its sincere thanks to those who participated in the meeting: representatives from Member States, UN agencies, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, editors of journals, academia, institutions and WHO collaborating centres.

Global challenges
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Health
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‘Old’ rules and protections for the ‘new’ world of work

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socialeurope.eu (20.04.2021) The labour status of people working in the online platform economy is key to their socio-economic protection. But it has proven a difficult issue for courts and regulators. The European Union is considering introducing a ‘rebuttable presumption of employment’ to help address this problem. What could this entail exactly? 

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european union
Topics
Extension of coverage
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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Maroc : la couverture sociale généralisée mise en œuvre

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Le Maroc a annoncé avoir lancé auprès de 9 millions de bénéficiaires son plan de généralisation de la couverture sociale destiné à terme à couvrir 22 millions de personnes actuellement dépourvues d'assurance maladie. Les agriculteurs, les artisans, les commerçants, les professionnels indépendants et leurs familles seront les premiers inclus dans le régime de l'assurance maladie obligatoire (AMO) en 2021 et 2022.

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morocco
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Extension of coverage
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COVID-19 Labor Policy Responses in Developing Countries

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The World Bank (March 2021) The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered one of the largest economic downturns since the Great Depression. Beyond its devastating effect on health, morbidity, and mortality, the pandemic shook economies and labor markets around the globe, leaving no firm, worker, and household untouched. Governments responded to the crisis with a series of public health and containment measures that deeply affected societies and economies, including the supply and demand for goods, capital, and labor.

Global challenges
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Employment
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United States: Senate adopts Republican jobless benefit for COVID-19 relief bill

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dol.gov (06.03.2121)

The U.S. Senate approved a Republican measure setting federal unemployment benefits for those made jobless by the coronavirus pandemic at $300 per week, as part of President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill.

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United States
Global challenges
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Unemployment
Social assistance
Cash transfers
COVID-19
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China: Extension period for reduction of premium rates of unemployment insurance and work injury insurance

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gov.cn (26.01.2021)

Considering that the risk of the pandemic still exists, some enterprises may be under great financial pressure, the policy of phased reduction of premium rates of unemployment insurance and work injury insurance will be extended for another year until 30 April 2022.

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china
Global challenges
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Unemployment
Occupational accidents and diseases
Contribution collection and compliance
COVID-19
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Australia: Tracing the impacts of the COVID pandemic on Australia's fastest-growing migrant group

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Monash University (12.04.2021) As the pandemic-related shutdown intensified across Australia from March 2020, temporary and undocumented migrants and their advocates warned of devastating impacts on migrant workers and international students who were simultaneously losing their incomes while being excluded from social security benefits.

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australia
Global challenges
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Difficult-to-cover groups
Migration
COVID-19

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Landmark study shows how child grants empower women in Brazil and South Africa

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theconversation.com (29.03.2021) Since the mid-1990s, new approaches to poverty reduction have been introduced in countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Some have involved income transfer programmes that target poorer citizens based on various means tests. Most have targeted female caregivers, primarily mothers. The most expansive child and family grants are in Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Argentina and South Africa, which has put in place the biggest social provision net in Africa.

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south africa
brazil
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Family benefits
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