**5. Conclusion and policy recommendation**

This paper has, for the first time, contributed to our knowledge gap on precarious work conditions and the health of rural-urban migrant labor workers in the informal settlement of Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana. Precarious work conditions and their associated health outcomes have often been associated with international labor workers, leaving a huge gap in the area of internal migration. The study has found various precarious work conditions among rural-urban migrant workers, which have resulted in poor health outcomes. This paper is consistent with Harris and Todaro's [19] model of labor migration. This model has aided in explaining the causes of the migration of the youth to the informal settlement of Agbogloshie in Accra, despite the *In the Process of Being Left Behind: Rural-Urban Migration, Precarious Work Conditions... DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.106907*

unavailability of job opportunities. Also, the paper's consistency with the ecological models [39] highlights the need for structural changes as well as individual migrants' efforts to engage in economic activities that promote their health and wellbeing. The study finally found a slow pace in which the government responds to addressing precarious work activities for the migrant labor workers in one of Ghana's urban slums, Accra. As a result, we proposed that structural changes can be implemented to address precarious work activities among migrants, as well as health promotion at the individual migrant level to address workplace-related health risk activities.
