Occupational Risks, Health Risk Assessments, Social Inclusion and Well-Being of Informal Workers
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2026 | Viewed by 99
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Interests: public health; occupational health; epidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
Nearly two billion people earn a living in the informal economy, according to ILO estimates. This represents close to 60% of the world’s workers. Informal work is present in high- and low-income countries and across regions, industries and sectors, and a significant proportion of urban informal employment falls into four occupations: domestic workers, home-based workers, street vendors and market traders, and waste pickers. Informal workers are people who work without legal protection, social security, or employment benefits. Most of these workers are in informal employment situations without access to social protection where, on average, earnings are low and risks are high. They often work in poor conditions, with limited access to personal protective equipment, healthcare, and health insurance. They may also have less access to occupational health education and services and be vulnerable to climate change impacts such as extreme heat, storms, or flooding. They may lack adequate shelter or infrastructure to work and live, have low levels of education and limited access to resources to upgrade their skills, and may be vulnarable to abuse of power and harassment. For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of papers addressing these topics, especially those combining quantitative and qualitative methods for providing working, environmental, and policy solutions to help these workers around the world.
Dr. Vanessa Resende Nogueira Cruvinel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- informal employment
- precarious work
- informal sector
- occupational health
- urban poverty
- social protection
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