ILROB 6710: Work, Health, and Health Care (Fall 2015): Key International Sources

A database on safety and health at work produced by the International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre. CISDOC indexes and abstracts articles and other key documents from over 35 countries.

This agency is a central provider of information on workplace health and safety for the European Union. Find statistics, news, publication, and monitoring resources.

From the Kaiser Family Foundation. This database provides international information on health and health care--including information on the professions and economics.

Valuable website for Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) information on health and health systems. Statistics, policy statements, and information by OECD nations are available.

Provides access to papers on international health systems.

Provides policy papers on statistics on workplace health and safety as well as health protection and income security.

The ILO's database of statistics, contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies. The Yearly indicators dataset contains standardized indicators for purposes of greater comparability across countries and relies heavily on the official submission of data by national authorities. The Short term indicators dataset contains monthly, quarterly and semi-annual data drawn from official websites of national authorities and is updated on a monthly basis. Additional data and tools are available from the site. This database replaces LABORSTA.

Homepage of IAIABC, an organization of workers' compensation specialists from a number of disciplines including Government officials & regulators, business and labor leaders, medical providers, law firms, insurance carriers, rehabilitation & safety experts. Find statistics and other reports on Workers' Compensation.

Find country information on healthcare and long term care. Good for comparisons.

SafeWork is an ILO program that aims to develop preventive policies and programs that will protect workers in hazardous occupations and sectors, to better equip governments, employers’ and workers’ organizations to address workers’ occupational health problems, and to document the social and economic impact of improving workers' protection.

This publication highlights the principal features of social security programs in more than 170 countries: old-age, disability, and survivors; sickness and maternity; work injury; unemployment; and family allowances.

Provides links to reports on work-health issues for the EU and individual European nations, from EurWORK: the European Observatory of Working Life.