Children at work : health and safety risks
- Responsibility
- Valentina Forastieri.
- Digital
- data file.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Imprint
- Geneva ; [Great Britain] : International Labour Office, 2002.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 169 pages, [8] pages of plates) : color illustrations.
- Series
- ILO child labour collection.
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Forastieri, Valentina.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Children's health and hazardous work
- Current legislation and child labour
- International standards
- Sources of information on the health of working children
- Data on occupational injuries and work-related diseases
- The effects of work on the health status of working children
- Growth and development
- Malnutrition
- Morbidity and mortality
- Endemic diseases
- Diarrhoea
- Vitamin A deficiency
- Iron deficiency
- Iodine deficiency
- Acute respiratory infections (ARI)
- Adolescent health
- Occupational hazards for working children in specific occupations and industries
- Examples of hazardous occupations and their consequences for the health of working children
- Occupational accidents
- Occupational diseases
- Ergonomic hazards
- Harmful substances and sources of exposure
- Exposure to physical agents
- Psychosocial hazards
- Strategies to address child labour from a health perspective
- A policy framework at national level
- Priorities for action
- Evaluation of children's working conditions
- Identification and use of sources of information
- Expert system for the identification of occupational diseases in clinical and surveillance applications
- Sentinel Health Event (occupational)
- Health status evaluation
- Recommendations concerning chemical exposure
- Exposure limits
- An occupational safety and health programme
- Protected working conditions
- Extension of protection to other groups
- Access to health care through primary health care (PHC)
- Impact assessment.
- Summary
- Topics covered include child labour, occupational health, occupational safety, developed country, developing country.
Subjects
- Subject
- Child labor.
- Industrial hygiene.
- Industrial safety.
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Industrial Health & Safety.
- Travail.
- Pays en développement.
- Droits homme > Enfant.
- Child labor.
- Industrial hygiene.
- Industrial safety.
- Kinderarbeid.
- Arbeidsomstandigheden.
- Gezondheidseffecten.
- Gesundheitsgefährdung
- Kinderarbeit
- Enfants > Travail > Pays en voie de développement.
- Sécurité du travail.
- Hygiène du travail.
- Child labour --
- Health hazards
- International labour standards --
- Children
- Children --
- Working conditions
- Occupational safety --
- Children
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2002
- Series
- ILO child labour collection
- Note
- Previous edition: 1997.
- ISBN
- 922111399X (pbk.)
- 9789221113997 (pbk.)
- 9789221137900 (electronic bk.)
- 9221137902 (electronic bk.)
- 9789221162360
- 9221162362
- 1280028211 (ebk)
- 9781280028212 (ebk)
