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ROUND TABLE 3: PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE Chairs: Tran Thi Ngoc Lan, MoH Viet Nam; Sonja Bleuland van Oordt- Dröge, Head of

Department General OHS Policy, Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment

Rapporteurs: Dick van Putten, TNO; Rokho Kim, WHO/EURO

Objective:

To identify strategic directions and actions for participatory health

governance and leadership regarding the health of workers in the

context of primary health care reforms.

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Suggested questions:

1 To what extend the health of workers is or should be considered in healthcare

reforms?

Suggested answers:

1 ALWAYS AND COMPLETELY

2 BASIC SERVICE FOR , THROUGH/IN COLLABORATION WITH PHC

3 UNDER-SERVED POPULATION FIRST (INFORMAL WORKERS, MIGRANTS,

SELF EMPLOYED)

4 ALL ADULTS WORK, BASIC HEALTH CARE SERVICE, INCLUDING BASIC OSH

5 OHS AS A SPECIFIC SERVICE AS WELL

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2Suggested questions:

Should a new health leadership engage in dialogue with workers' representatives,

employers and ministries of labour about healthcare reforms

Suggested answers:

1 MULTIPARTITE: INCLUDING ALL STAKEHOLDERS

2 SPECIAL APPROACH INFORMAL SECTOR

3 ROLE OF ALL-OF-THE-GOVERNANCE (supported by the Ministry of Labour)

4 ROLE OF MUNICIPALITIES (LOCAL GOVERNMENT)

5 National and local levels involved in dialogue

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ROUND TABLE 3: PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE 3 Suggested questions:

What health information is NECESSARY TO ENSURE THAT (available and or

needed to measure whether) primary care can tackle work-related health

problems and access to prevention?

Suggested answers:

1 INFO ON GOOD PRACTICE (LAW, EDUCATION , SERVICES)

2 COMMUNITY OSH PROFILE AND COUNTRY OSH PROFILE

3 INFO ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF WORKERS

4 GENERAL INFORMATION ON HEALTH, WORK, SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS:

MORE SPECIFIC: (INTER-)NATIONAL/LOCAL SURVEY DATA BY (INTER-)

NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND WHO-CC, ILO/CIS AND WORLDBANK

5 QUALITATIVE DATA MAY BE SUFFICIENT IF QUANTITAVE DATA ARE NOT

AVAILABLE (ON PRIMARY PREVENTION)

6 BASIC TYPE OF INFO ON WORKING CONDITIONS, WORKERS LIFESTYLE

EDUCATION, INTERVENTIONS, SERVICES

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ROUND TABLE 3: PARTICIPATORY GOVERNANCE 4 Suggested questions:

What actions should be undertaken to move to participatory health governance for

workers' health at the local, national and international level, including research to

fill knowledge gaps?

Suggested answers:

TOP 4 (OF 13 MENTIONED/AGREED)

1 URGE RATIFICATION AND/OR IMPLEMENTATION: ILO C 161,155,178

2 ENGAGE EVERY STAKEHOLDER IN HEALTHCARE REFORM

3 SET UP A WHO-PLATFORM FOR DISSEMINATION FOR OSH-INFORMATION,

e.g. COUNTRY OSH PROFILE (WHO, ILO), GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLES,

TRAINING MATERIAL

4 LINK LABOUR INSPECTORATE WITH OHS AND VICE VERSA

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