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Earlier this month, the World Health Organisation announced the establishment a new global indicator for worker health, ”the mortality rate per 100 000 working-age population from diseases attributable to selected occupational risk factors”. This is an indicator for sustainable development goals (SDGs) 3 and 8 to which UN members have already committed.
This new global indicator is calculated in the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury, 2000-2016: Global Monitoring Report,published in 2021 and signed by both Dr Tedros and Mr Guy Ryder, the respective DG’s of the WHO and the ILO. These data comprise estimates of the burden attributable to 21 pairs of occupational risk factor and disease for 183 countries – the WHO and ILO have systematically reviewed and judged these exposure-disease pairings and judged them to be sufficient to produce official estimates that fulfil the strict statistical requirements for both UN organisations. All diseases covered are non-communicable and include 17 malignant neoplasms, two respiratory diseases and two cardiovascular diseases. A database is available from which you can download data on the exposure-disease pairs to excel – notes and links are provided below.
Notes
- SDG 3 is ‘Good Health and Well-being’
- SDG 8 is ‘Decent Work and Economic Growth’.
- See table 2 of the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury, 2000-2016: Global Monitoring Report which sets out the established pairs of occupational risk factor and health outcome.
- database on the joint estimates