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1 Why we cannot diagnose? Domyung Paek Seoul, Korea

2 Personal Background and Context Academic Professional Political Personal - middle class

3 Why and Who vs What and How Why to diagnose? Why not to diagnose? What is the ultimate goal of diagnosis for various stakeholders? Who are behind the diagnosis? Who is the dominating stakeholder of the system? What to diagnose and How to diagnose?

4 Not Diagnosis but Study Field work together with clinical work Epidemiology with Social Magnets You should have Solutions before Diagnosis How & What to diagnose?

5 Not Diagnosis but Study Temporal and Spatial Association

6 Field work together with clinical work Listening and understanding Samsung denies any possibility of exposure, but there are plenty when we listen to workers

7 Epidemiology with Social Magnets Snowball sampling Case-control approaches Work mate, family members, neighborhoods

8 Solutions Political empowerment Institutionalization Overcoming cultural bias Secondary gain, Moral hazard

9 OSH Demands Ways to generate OSH Demands Measurement and Management Prevention vs Compensation Lessons for Training Why & Who to diagnose?

10 OSH Demands As a way to raise issues of salary raise, employment stability, outsourcing practice, etc. As a way to raise issues of comfortableness of work and partly health and safety As a way to raise issues of fair treatment, social justice, and human rights As a way to divert issues of legitimacy of regime As a way to divert issues of organized labor force

11 OSH Demands Lack of OSH Demands: Pakistan, India(?) Physicians as “Entrepreneur-like” Activist Manipulation of OSH Demands: Philippines, Indonesia(?) Physicians as “Impartial” Gatekeeper Suppression of OSH Demands: China, Vietnam(?) Physicians as “Innovative” Professionals

12 OSH Demands & Workers’ Interest How to generate workers’ interests in OSH Right to Know How to represent workers’ interest in OSH Right to Choose How to assemble workers’ interest in OSH Right to Participate

13 Measurement and Management Formal Sectors Organized Measured Managed (Prevention) Informal Sectors Unorganized Listening Claimed (Compensation) Not measured, not managed in formal sectors. However, in informal sectors, no need to be managed, no need to be measured. Need to be managed -> Measured -> Managed

14 Prevention or Compensation Prevention becomes first, only when compensation is inevitable. Without proper compensation, there is no prevention.

15 Training of Physicians Lessons on the importance of OSH Demands by workers, and tools for generating, representing and assembling these demands Lessons on how OSH Demands can contribute to or divert from the solution of OSH problems Lessons on the stages of social development and appropriate combination of compensation and prevention Lessons on how to tackle informal sectors and ways to organize and work with various activist groups


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