Child Health and Child Labour: From Information to Intervention

This book is the result and elaboration of a two-day international seminar held in Amsterdam on 24 and 25 October 1997. A group of international experts, both specialists and generalists from different disciplines, invited by the Netherlands Foundation for International Child Health (NFICH) and the Amsterdam Foundation for International Research on the Exploitation of Working Children (IREWOC), engaged in discussions about the health of working children.

Hazardous child labour and exploitation of young children call for immediate intervention because of their threat to the physical and psychosocial wellbeing and development of these children. New ways of intervention and regulation are pointed out. A participatory community-based approach of this multi-faceted problem is imperative."

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Contents

Editorial

Introduction: From Information to Intervention
Sjef Teuns, Jaap Mulder

Plenary Sessions: a brief report of presentations and discussions
Hans Veltmeijer

Part I: Strategies for health care of working children: successes and failures

Conditions considered as hazardous for the working child
Mohd. Sham Kasim

Child labour: a social health issue which needs a community health approach.
G.H. Coppee

Planning and implementation of health programmes for working children.
Margaret A. Lynch, Philista Onyango

Toxic Exposures: incentives for action.
Michael A. McGuigan

Children in hazardous work in the informal sector in Indonesia.
Sutrisno R. Pardoen

Part II: Workshop reports: from information to intervention

How to identify and approach children in hazardous work

Health programmes for working children: prevention, protection and rehabilitation.

New models of intervention in hazardous working conditions for children.

Community-cooperation to reduce harmful forms of child labour.

Summing-up: On the need for a multi-faceted approach.
Kristoffel Lieten

Programme of the seminar
Dakar Declaration on Child Labour 5996
Kuala Lumpur Resolution on Child Labour 5996
List of Participants