Work-related injuries among child street-laborers in Latin America: prevalence and predictors Lesiones laborales en niños que trabajan en la calle en América Latina: prevalencia y factores de predicción

• Main Authors: Angela Maria Pinzon-Rondon, Sally A. Koblinsky, Sandra L. Hofferth, Carlos E. Pinzon-Florez, Leonardo Briceno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2009
• Subjects: Trabajo de menores; jóvenes sin hogar; accidentes de trabajo; Brasil; Colombia; Ecuador; Perú; América Latina; Child labor; homeless youth; accidents; occupational; Brazil; Latin America; Peru; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Quito
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/ae8a51f5a30e4a7688101b65132cdcd2

OBJECTIVES: To determine the prevalence and nature of occupational injuries among children working in the streets of four major cities in Latin America, as well as to identify factors that predict these work-related injuries. METHODS: This cross-sectional study interviewed 584 children from 5-17 yea...