Environmental health research in Africa: important progress and promising opportunities

BR Joubert, SN Mantooth, KA McAllister - Frontiers in Genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The World Health Organization in 2016 estimated that over 20% of the global disease
burden and deaths were attributed to modifiable environmental factors. However, data …

History of injury in a developing country: a scoping review of injury literature in Lebanon

S Al-Hajj, C Pawliuk, J Smith, A Zheng… - Journal of Public …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Lebanon, an Eastern Mediterranean country, suffers a large burden of
injury as a consequence of conflict and war, political instability, and the lack of policies and …

Exposures resulting in safety and health concerns for child laborers in less developed countries

DG Shendell, S Noomnual, S Chishti… - … of environmental and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives. Worldwide, over 200 million children are involved in child labor, with another 20
million children subjected to forced labor, leading to acute and chronic exposures resulting …

Characterizing exposures and neurobehavioral performance in Egyptian adolescent pesticide applicators

DS Rohlman, AA Ismail, G Abdel-Rasoul… - Metabolic brain …, 2014 - Springer
Children and adolescents may have occupational exposure to pesticides. Although previous
studies examining prenatal pesticide exposure have identified neurobehavioral deficits in …

[HTML][HTML] Neurobehavioral performance of Indonesian farmers and its association with pesticide exposure: a cross-sectional study

IN Pawestri, E Sulistyaningsih - Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Acute and chronic pesticide exposure affect human health. The study aimed to
assess the neurobehavioral performance and its association with pesticide exposure factors …

Association between pesticide exposure and neurobehavioral performance of agricultural workers: A cross‐sectional study

S Tiwari, N Sapkota, S Tiwari, B Sapkota - Brain and Behavior, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background Pesticide exposure has affected humans' health, especially those directly in
contact with a pesticide like agricultural workers. Here, we sought to see a link between …

Perspective: young workers at higher risk for carcinogen exposures

CM Sweet, JM Telfer, AL Palmer, SS Fazel… - Frontiers in Public …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Young workers, those under the age of 25, are considered a vulnerable working population,
primarily due to their increased risk of injury. In this study we investigate if young workers …

Wealth, social protection programs, and child labor in colombia: a cross-sectional study

ÁM Pinzón-Rondón, LB Cifuentes… - … Journal of Health …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article has 3 main objectives:(1) to assess the prevalence of child labor in Colombia,(2)
to identify factors associated with child labor, and (3) to determine whether social protection …

Trabalho precoce, marcador de vulnerabilidades para saúde em escolares brasileiros: Pesquisa Nacional de Saúde do Escolar (PeNSE 2012)

L Giatti, MO Campos, CD Crespo… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2014 - SciELO Brasil
Objetivos: Descrever a prevalência de trabalho em estudantes da 9ª série do ensino
fundamental de escolas públicas e privadas brasileiras e investigar as características …

[PDF][PDF] Labor in early life, vulnerability for health in Brazilian schoolchildren: National Adolescent School-based Health Survey (PeNSE 2012)

L Giatti, MO Campos, CD Crespo… - Revista Brasileira …, 2014 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: This study describes exposure labor among Brazilian 9th grade students from
public and private schools and investigates socio-demographic characteristics, behaviors …