To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to assess the impact of a living wage programme on workers' mental health in the developing world.
Singapore's move follows legislation that already exists in Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as domestic laws requiring mandatory orientation programmes for workers and greater regulation of employment agencies.
Unfortunately, too much of the growth in apprenticeships appears to add to the stock of low level training programmes for workers in low skilled, low paid jobs with few progression prospects.
In New Zealand, 40 organisations were originally recruited to the 'Bike Now' programme of which 27 (675 workers) remained in the programme at 1 year.
Based on estimates of the types of female sex workers served by each programme, of the total sex workers served by all the programmes considered together 57% were street-based, 27% brothel-based and 16% home-based.
13 48 49 50 51 Studies investigating the effect of a similar programme in other types of workers (hairdressers, cleaners, and kitchen assistants) with more severe eczema would be interesting.
These included patient-related factors such as cultural and socioeconomic background, frailty, vulnerability and illness severity [ 9, 51, 52] and, the need to have a programme of health care worker preparedness [ 46].
It is possible that data reporting improved over the life of the programme as health workers were trained over the course of the programme in monitoring and evaluation.
A pilot programme of rural health-care workers in India the type that the health ministry wants to expand found that the workers were perfectly able to diagnose basic ailments and prescribe appropriate drugs.
However, the programme did increase the number of workers who received information on healthy computer use and improved their work posture and movement at relatively modest costs.
However, with a relatively small investment, the programme did increase the number of workers who received information on healthy computer use and improved their work posture and movement.
