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Informal employment has become the income generator for millions of human beings around the world. It is estimated that at least 2 billion people earn a living from work in informal conditions. However, given the characteristics of informal employment, there are no occupational health and safety management systems that allow accounting for the conditions under which these activities are carried out. Worse still, the health effects of informal work are completely unknown. Worldwide, it is estimated that up to 85% of workers in the world lack access to occupational health and safety services. For this reason, the identification of hazards, risk assessment and the analysis of their effects constitute a problematic situation, especially for workers who lack insurance coverage for accidents and occupational diseases. From a theoretical point of view, the health-work relationship in the informal sector is seen from multiple angles, which implies a diversified analysis of its realities and characteristics. In this sense, focusing attention only on working conditions or health conditions implies ignoring the variety of views that underlie the informal economy.
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Betancourt-Sánchez, L. (2021). Occupational Health Management in Informal Work: A Theoretical Analysis of the Field. In: Goonetilleke, R.S., Xiong, S., Kalkis, H., Roja, Z., Karwowski, W., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_22
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