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The global world of work, like the world as a whole, has changed considerably since the first Journal of Industrial Health was issued in 1963. In the workplace, we experience repeated reorganizing , downsizing and expanding of organizations as very common nowadays 1). The experience of job insecurity has been associated with poorer physical and mental health outcomes 2) , and sustained job insecurity due to precarious labour market position has also been linked to poor health behaviours by way of declines in specific coping mechanisms. Also, workplace external factors are clearly important in the development and maintenance of mental and physical health. Evidence-based findings link social determinants such as social status, stress, early life, social exclusion, work, unemployment, social support, addiction, food and transport, to health in its broad sense. Naturally, adverse employment and working conditions and limited possibilities for a healthy lifestyle are closely linked to chronic/non-communicable disease such as mental health and cardiovascular diseases and others. However, we are not only obliged to deal with ever increasing insecurities at work but also in our daily lives. This is not only because our economic and socio-political era is unstable, but because of the insecurities related to processes of globalization with an ever increasing urge of businesses in industrialized countries to undertake their production processes in low income settings, resulting in increased unemployment in industrialized countries and substandard working conditions dangerous to workers' health in low income countries. Although the creation of jobs in emerging sectors such as the green economy using 'green technologies' provides many new opportunities for employment and prevention of occupational hazards, not all technologies are necessarily safe for worker's health. Globalization has certainly increased the size of the informal sector which means that informal workers are not protected by any national labour laws. Also, they receive neither health insurance nor pensions, and are not included in any national labour statistics. Minimum standards for working conditions are defined in countries only for the formal sector. Another global challenge we face is poverty. More than one-half of the world's people live below the internationally defined poverty line of less than US 2 dollars a day 3). This situation has a clear impact on the health and well-being of workers, their families, communities and nations as a whole. Furthermore, growing up in poverty provides people with less opportunity to build up strengths and capabilities to maintain good physical …

A Need to Broaden Our Perspective to Address Workers’ Health Effectively in the 21st Century