Child labour: a public health perspective

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 thedeveloping world, where most of it occurs. INDICE: David Wagman: Foreword; 1: Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon: Introduction; Part 1: Child Labour Profile; 2: Charita L. Castro: An overview of child labour statistics; Part 2: A Model of Child Labour; 3:Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon: A rights-oriented, public health model of child labour; 4: Eric V. Edmonds: Public health in the economics of child labour; 5: David Post: The child labour - education - health connection; 6: Virginia Morrow and Jo Boyden: Social values and child labour; 7: David Weissbrodt and Natalie Kohner: International law and child labour; 8: Renata M. Coimbra Liborio and Silvia Koller: Children's work and children's rights; 9: Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon: Understanding the health effects of child labour; 9a: Anaclaudia Fassa: Illustrative example - Childlabour and health: Work-related injuries; 9b: Ana Maria Osorio: Illustrative example - Child labour and health: Pesticide exposure; 9c: David L. Parker andLisa Ide: Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Lead; 9d: Raheela Ayub and David L. Parker: Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Silicosis and silico-tuberculosis; 9e: Anita Amorim and Nadine Osseiran: Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: HIV and AIDS; 9f: Susan Gunn, David L. Parker and Mary E. Miller: Illustrative example - Child Labour and health: Psychosocial and developmental effects; Part 3: The Global Response to Child Labour and its Impact; 10: Ana Lúcia Kassouf: Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Brazil - A focus on conditional cash transfers; 11: Philista Onyango: Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Kenya - A focus on ILO-IPEC and the Timebound Programme; 12: Amaryllis T. Torres: Eradicating child labour: Country-wide case studies. Philippines - A focus on partnerships;12a: Nina Smith: Illustrative case study - A case study of a Labour Monitoring Programme: RugMark; 12b: Barbara C. Lee: Illustrative case study - A case study of applying guidelines from one country in another: Marshfield; 12c: NeomiMiyasaka Porro and Anaclaudia Fassa: Illustrative case study - A case study of rights in child labour: Coco-babaçu workers in Brazil; Part 4: Changing the future; 13: Anaclaudia Fassa, David L. Parker and Tom Scanlon: Health and child labour: Changing the future

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955858-2
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés