If the intervention saves as many mothers and newborns as we're hoping — about a thousand lives in the course of a year at the target hospitals — then all that need be done is to hire and develop similar cadres of childbirth-improvement workers for other places around the country and potentially the world.
With the BetterBirth Project, we wondered, in particular, what would happen if we hired a cadre of childbirth-improvement workers to visit birth attendants and hospital leaders, show them why and how to follow a checklist of essential practices, understand their difficulties and objections, and help them practice doing things differently.
In other words, a frontline manager is meant to communicate decisions, not to make them; to ensure compliance with policies, not to use judgment or discretion (and certainly not to develop policies); and to oversee the implementation of improvements, not to contribute ideas or even implement improvements (workers do that).
But if we demand higher standards for all countries — modestly higher standards, so that we're not talking about driving the business back to advanced countries — we can achieve an improvement in workers' lives (and fewer horrible workers' deaths), without undermining the export industries these countries so desperately need.
Former president Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia (1940 44) formed an unusual political coalition consisting of members of the communist Popular Vanguard Party and the Catholic Church to bring about significant improvement in workers' conditions and social security.
One of the reasons for the improvement in workers' fortunes in the latter part of the Industrial Revolution was because schools were built to educate them a dramatic change at the time.
The much-expected improvement of workers' safety in the garment industry, which drew significant international attention in 2013 after the deadly Rana Plaza disaster in Savar, was progressing at a slow pace.
Therefore, our evidence suggests that the availability of training at the workplace is associated with a significant improvement of workers' maths skills.
Ms. Burrow said Qatar was more interested in its public image rather than improvement of workers' material conditions.
Incomprehensibly, the Obama administration is asking House members to weaken the Senate's language to let Malaysia into TPP without any actual improvement in workers' conditions.
The insurgents had no organized agenda, and commonly fought under red standards; common demands were the improvement of workers' living conditions and greater rights for the Polish population.
