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A Study of the health conditions of child workers in a small scale leather industry in Calcuta

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24512‎$a‎A Study of the health conditions of child workers in a small scale leather industry in Calcuta‎$c‎Sampa Mitra
520  ‎$a‎Forty male children aged between seven and 14 years, working in small scale leather workshops in a slum locality in Calcutta were studied, along with a control group of 40 non-working male children of the same age group, same locality, and the same socioeconomic class. Three specific health problems - namely, low back and ankle pain, dizziness, and tingling pain in the hands were found in a significantly higher proportion in the working children. For height, weight, nutritional state, and general morbidity pattern, however there were no significant differences between the two groups. Possibly the particular sitting posture of the child workers for long working hours and the chemical nature of the glue and solvents used in this industry were responsible for the manifestations in the working children
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080576615‎$a‎Medicina laboral
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080619480‎$a‎Enfermedades profesionales
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65011‎$0‎MAPA20080538576‎$a‎Cuero
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080565541‎$a‎Epidemiología
65011‎$0‎MAPA20080543327‎$a‎Calcuta
7400 ‎$a‎British journal of industrial medicine
7730 ‎$t‎British journal of industrial medicine‎$d‎London and Margate‎$g‎nº 10, October 1993 ; p. 938-940