For reasons not fully understood, SARS has exerted its heaviest toll so far on health care workers in third world countries like Vietnam where there are relatively few trained personnel.
Nicholas D. Kristof is correct when he says multinational companies can benefit workers in third-world countries (column, June 25), but wrong when he suggests that sweatshop jobs are better than no jobs at all.
Given the low productivity of workers in third-world countries, their nations' lack of infrastructure and general lag in development, to insist that such workers be paid what Americans would regard as a living wage is to insist that they price themselves out of their jobs.
More typically, he depicts workers in third-world countries as a threat to American workers.
p. 582-594 This article outlines the lessons learned from the experiences of the first countries that adopted and implemented the IMCI interventions regarding the clinical guidelines on treating the major causes of morbidity and mortality in children, including a training package for health workers in first-level health facilities on the guidelines.
Outbreaks of SARS had occurred among healthcare workers in the Second and Third Affiliated Hospitals but not the First Affiliated Hospital.
The Commerce Department says U.S. based global corporations added 2.4 million workers abroad in first decade of 21st century, while cutting their US workforce by 2.9 million.
IMCI trained health workers working in first level health facilities in Limpopo and in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN) provinces, South Africa, were included in this study.
Therefore, many textile enterprises (the large subcontractors) do not pay their workers in the first 3 months: the payment for the first month is distributed in the fourth month and so on.
Liquid Personnel surveyed more than 600 social workers – including 117 newly qualified social workers (in their first year of practice).
(Hospitals hired nearly 20,000 workers in the first half of 2009, in the depths of the recession).
