Roggero Paola, Mangiaterra Viviana, Bustreo Flavia, Rosati Furio
University of Bocconi at the World Bank, Human Development Network, Washington, DC, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2007 Feb;97(2):271-5. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.066829. Epub 2006 Dec 28.
Research on child labor and its effect on health has been limited. We sought to determine the impact of child labor on children's health by correlating existing health indicators with the prevalence of child labor in selected developing countries.
We analyzed the relationship between child labor (defined as the percentage of children aged 10 to 14 years who were workers) and selected health indicators in 83 countries using multiple regression to determine the nature and strength of the relation. The regression included control variables such as the percentage of the population below the poverty line and the adult mortality rate.
Child labor was significantly and positively related to adolescent mortality, to a population's nutrition level, and to the presence of infectious disease.
Longitudinal studies are required to understand the short- and long-term health effects of child labor on the individual child.
关于童工及其对健康影响的研究一直有限。我们试图通过将现有的健康指标与选定发展中国家的童工患病率相关联,来确定童工对儿童健康的影响。
我们分析了83个国家中童工(定义为10至14岁儿童中工作儿童的百分比)与选定健康指标之间的关系,使用多元回归来确定这种关系的性质和强度。回归分析纳入了诸如贫困线以下人口百分比和成人死亡率等控制变量。
童工与青少年死亡率、人口营养水平以及传染病的存在显著正相关。
需要进行纵向研究,以了解童工对单个儿童的短期和长期健康影响。