Just a handful of multinational fruit companies dominate the international banana trade – Dole, Del Monte, Chiquita, and Fyffes – but it is supermarkets that are now the most powerful actors along the banana supply chain. Some of these chemicals are classified as hazardous by the World Health Organisation.Īgrochemical use pollutes water supplies, contaminates soils, and can have devastating impacts on worker health. The banana industry consumes more agrochemicals than any other in the world, except cotton. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.The monoculture production methods used can destroy entire ecosystems.
Mental health, employment, social economic transition, resilience, prevention, policyĪll contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Management strategies adopted by the employer for mitigating mental health risks at work.utilization of supported employment programmes to improve mental health at work. Evaluating psychological risks (as burnout, stress, fatigue or depression as a result of long working hours, high work pressure and bullying or even violence) resulting from employment.Cultural and social determinants that may exacerbate mental health issues at work.Mental health issues at work in economic transitioning societies, and strategies of mitigation.We encourage submissions of the following subtopics, but not limited to: Interdisciplinary and comparative studies are welcomed. We welcome Original Research and Review articles from various disciplines including sociology, management, demography, psychology, economics, and public health etc.
We aim to 1) provide new evidence on the impact of economic changes on labour force mental health 2) identify innovative market or community solutions to mental health issues at work 3) identify and evaluate employer interventions to address or prevent work-related mental health issues 3) understand government policy responses and their effectiveness. This Research Topic calls for new empirical research on the strategies in addressing mental health issues at work. However, how these macro-economic or work cultural changes have shocked labour force and resulted in new mental health issues, and how employers and policy makers should respond to such pressures, still remain to be resolved. industrialization, globalization, digitalization), economic recession or even crisis, or changing management culture (privatization, performance targets, casualization), mental health of the labour force can be seriously affected. More specifically, in economies undergoing rapid changes, such as radical structural transformation (e.g. It is urgent to identify: how work-related mental health issues have evolved the determinants of the issues and, the key strategies/practices that mitigate them. Mental health problems resulting from employment have attracted far less attention. In contrast, in developing countries, the focus of work injuries mostly lays on physical injuries. Employers and governments in developed countries have put great efforts on addressing these issues. People suffering from such injuries may also face challenging family and social relations and some of them would have to resort to public resources for treatment and support. Consequentially, employers often face costs due to psychologically injured employee’s long periods of absence or productivity loss. Work-related mental health issues, also known as psychological injuries (such as burnout, stress, fatigue or depression as a result of long working hours, high work pressure and bullying or even violence), have become substantive workplace and social concerns due to the adverse effect on employees and peer workers.
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