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Child labour : a public health perspective
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child labor.
- Occupational Health Services.
- Employment.
- Child Health Services.
- Adolescent.
- Child.
- Child Welfare.
- Human Rights Abuses.
- Social Problems.
- Community Health Services.
- Social Welfare.
- Age Groups.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Sociology.
- Health Services.
- Persons.
- Population Characteristics.
- Names.
- Social Sciences.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Medical Subjects:
- Occupational Health Services.
- Employment.
- Child Health Services.
- Adolescent.
- Child.
- Child Welfare.
- Human Rights Abuses.
- Social Problems.
- Community Health Services.
- Social Welfare.
- Age Groups.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Sociology.
- Health Services.
- Persons.
- Population Characteristics.
- Names.
- Social Sciences.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 270 p.) : ill., col. maps.
- Other Title:
- Child labour
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book discusses issues of child labour such as poverty malnutrition, social disadvantage, gender, globalisation, and education, and looks at both physical and psychological threats. The editors concentrate on child labour in the developing world where most of it occurs.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Foreword, David Wagman 1. Introduction, Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon Part 1: Child Labour Profile 2. An overview of child labour statistics, Charita L. Castro Part 2: A Model of Child Labour 3. A rights-oriented, public health model of child labour, Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon 4. Public health in the economics of child labour, Eric V. Edmonds 5. The child labour - education - health connection, David Post 6. Social values and child labour, Virginia Morrow and Jo Boyden 7. International law and child labour, David Weissbrodt and Natalie Kohner 8. Children's work and children's rights, Renata M. Coimbra Liborio and Silvia Koller 9. Understanding the health effects of child labour, Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon 9a. Illustrative example - Child labour and health: Work-related injuries, Anaclaudia Fassa 9b. Illustrative example - Child labour and health: Pesticide exposure, Ana Maria Osorio 9c. Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Lead, David L. Parker and Lisa Ide 9d. Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Silicosis and silico-tuberculosis, Raheela Ayub and David L. Parker
- 9e. Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: HIV and AIDS, Anita Amorim and Nadine Osseiran 9f. Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Psychosocial and developmental effects, Susan Gunn, David L. Parker and Mary E. Miller Part 3: The Global Response to Child Labour and its Impact 10. Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Brazil - A focus on conditional cash transfers, Ana Lucia Kassouf 11. Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Kenya - A focus on ILO-IPEC and the Timebound Programme, Philista Onyango 12. Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Philippines - A focus on partnerships, Amaryllis T. Torres 12a. Illustrative case study - A case study of a Labour Monitoring Programme: RugMark, Nina Smith 12b. Illustrative case study - A case study of applying guidelines from one country in another: Marshfield, Barbara C. Lee 12c. Illustrative case study - A case study of rights in child labour: Coco-babacu workers in Brazil, Neomi Miyasaka Porro and Anaclaudia Fassa Part 4: Changing the future 13. Health and child labour: Changing the future, Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780191594397 (ebook) :
- 0191594393 (ebook) :
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