Results from Eurofound’s forthcoming report More and better jobs in home care services will be presented for the first time at a high-level event in Brussels on Thursday, 12 September 2013 at the Committee of the Regions. This one-day conference, organised by Eurofound under the auspices of the Lithuanian Presidency, will assess the policy challenges for long-term care as well as personal household services, particularly in relation to job creation and the quality of jobs in this sector.
In a new book, ''Pathologies of Power'' (University of California), Dr. Farmer, who has worked and lived in Haiti for the past 20 years, criticizes human rights advocates and bioethicists for giving short shrift to the health problems of the poor.