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A call to action on women’s health: putting corporate CSR standards for workplace health on the global health agenda

Overview of attention for article published in Globalization and Health, November 2016
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Title
A call to action on women’s health: putting corporate CSR standards for workplace health on the global health agenda
Published in
Globalization and Health, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12992-016-0206-4
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Authors

David Wofford, Shawn MacDonald, Carolyn Rodehau

Abstract

Business operates within a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) system that the global health community should harness to advance women's health and related sustainable development goals for workers and communities in low- and middle-income countries. Corporations and their vast networks of supplier companies, particularly in manufacturing and agribusiness, employ millions of workers, increasingly comprised of young women, who lack access to health information, products and services. However, occupational safety and health practices focus primarily on safety issues and fail to address the health needs, including reproductive health, of women workers. CSR policy has focused on shaping corporate policies and practices related to the environment, labor, and human rights, but has also ignored the health needs of women workers. The authors present a new way for global health to understand CSR - as a set of regulatory processes governed by civil society, international institutions, business, and government that set, monitor, and enforce emerging standards related to the role of business in society. They call this the CSR system. They argue that the global health community needs to think differently about the role of corporations in public health, which has been as "partners," and that the global health practitioners should play the same advocacy role in the CSR system for corporate health policies as it does for government and international health policies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 126 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 14 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 10%
Student > Master 12 10%
Unspecified 9 7%
Other 30 24%
Unknown 36 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 15 12%
Business, Management and Accounting 14 11%
Social Sciences 12 10%
Engineering 9 7%
Unspecified 9 7%
Other 22 17%
Unknown 45 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 March 2017.
All research outputs
#6,362,583
of 22,901,818 outputs
Outputs from Globalization and Health
#757
of 1,108 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#97,260
of 311,298 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Globalization and Health
#15
of 28 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,901,818 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 72nd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 1,108 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 21.9. This one is in the 31st percentile – i.e., 31% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
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