Exposures Resulting in Safety and Health Concerns for Child Laborers in Less Developed Countries

Exposures Resulting in Safety and Health Concerns for Child Laborers in Less Developed Countries

Objectives. Worldwide, over 200 million children are involved in child labor, with another 20 million children subjected to forced labor, leading to acute and chronic exposures resulting in safety and health (S&H) risks, plus removal from formal education and play. This review summarized S&H issues in child labor, including forced or indentured domestic labor as other sectors of child labor. Sp...

Maternal literacy and child health in less-developed countries: evidence, processes, and limitations.

The Impact of Child Health and Nutrition on Education in Less Developed Countries

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The Informal Sector in Developed and Less Developed Countries

The main goal of this study is two-fold: (1) to provide a general overview of the contributions to the literature on the informal sector, with a special focus on the Public Choice approach; and (2) to compare these contributions across two institutionally different types of countries: developed and less developed (developing and transition) countries. The paper focuses on the criteria used to d...

Health status of child laborers in Nepal .

Addressing child labor involves ensuring good health of existing child laborers in addition to reducing their number. To determine different physical and psychological health problems among child laborers in Nepal. This study compares the status of health between Nepalese child laborers and school going children of similar age. Nineteen different kinds of labors were selected and the child labo...