Workplace health is good practice has been developed by the Health at Work in Primary Care project at the Health Development Agency and funded by the Department of Health. This guidance is aimed principally at general practitioners and their staff as well as other organisations with a role in supporting them, for example Primary Care Trusts/Groups.
An additional supplement has been published for PCT/Gs to help them in this role. It will also be of interest to other primary care employers such as dentists, pharmacists and opticians. This Framework for Action in Primary Care (FFAPC) has been written to reflect the progress in thinking and practice on improving workplace health within smaller organisations and the change agenda currently facing primary care staff.
Countries around the world have opened their economies to foreign investors by liberalizing foreign direct investment (FDI) laws and actively promoting FDI inflows (UNCTAD 2003). Yet only a handful of countries in the developing world are attracting sizeable FDI inflows. Economists argue that the main reason for the lack of capital flowing from the capital rich north to the developing south is the potential for high levels of political risk in emerging markets.
Numerous studies in political science and economics have attempted to pinpoint the policies and political institutions that affect FDI flows, but most works suffer from two sets of flaws. First, many works utilize macro-level data to test micro-level theories. Theories on the relationship between political risk and multinational investment center on the decisions of individual firms while the majority of empirical analyses use aggregate levels of foreign direct investment to test these theories.
The world’s children need greater protection from the marketing of energy-dense, low-nutrient foods. Experiences of marketing controls on tobacco and baby-milk show that voluntary marketing codes are unlikely to be adequate, and that stronger regulation is required. International standards are needed to provide a coherent framework to protect and promote children’s health.
