Using epidemiology and neurotoxicology to reduce risks to young workers
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Using epidemiology and neurotoxicology to reduce risks to young workers.
Children around the world are working in hazardous or unsafe conditions and they are at risk to injury through manual labor and susceptible to poisoning due to chemical exposures in the work place. Because of their behavior and the developmental changes occurring throughout childhood and adolescence children are more vulnerable to injury. Often children work because of economic necessity, comin...
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عنوان ژورنال: NeuroToxicology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0161-813X
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuro.2012.02.012