Niños y jóvenes trabajadores. Necesidad de atención integral. La Victoria, estado Aragua. 1997

We have determined the condition of life, labor and health of the 44 children and adolescent workers that they are part of Program "To Grow in La Victoria" and they work in the Municipal garbage collector, supermarkets, cementery, shipper and water carrier "house and house"; we h...

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Main Authors: Martínez Bello, María del Carmen, Rojas, Hanoy, Barroso, Judith, Romera, Manuel A., Franco, Francisco, Trasladino, Pedro
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: 1998
Subjects:
Menor trabajador
Niño y trabajo
Niño y trabajo infanto-juvenil
Trabajo infantil
Children and adolescent workers
Children and work
Children worker
Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6464196
Source:Salud de los Trabajadores, ISSN 1315-0138, Vol. 6, Nº. 2, 1998, pags. 97-110
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Niños y jóvenes trabajadores. Necesidad de atención integral. La Victoria, estado Aragua. 1997
Summary: We have determined the condition of life, labor and health of the 44 children and adolescent workers that they are part of Program "To Grow in La Victoria" and they work in the Municipal garbage collector, supermarkets, cementery, shipper and water carrier "house and house"; we have developed the instrument named "Integral History for the Child Worker Evaluation", which was aplicated in base of interviau and physical test to each of them. The average age of group was 12.1 ≠ 2.2 years, which of them 95.3% were male. The numerous families and bad constituid and sub-mployed fathers. 23% abandoned theirs school, with 73% of collegial repetition. The age to start working was between 5 and 14 years, which significated the age average of 2.3 years, for the moment of present study. The labor most frecuently were: the supermarket shipper, recollecters and sellectioners of materials in the Municipal garbage collectors. There were high expotition to mechanical, chemical and phisical (rise up load or over weight) risk. The accident and disease related with the ocupation, were 23% and 32% respectively. The patology most frecuently was the cronical desnutrition (47.7%). That all indicates the necesit of the integral attention, especialist and multidisciplinary for the child worker.

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