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Health hazards to children in the service industries
Author(s) -
Kinney Joseph A.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700240306
Subject(s) - scrutiny , medicine , occupational safety and health , scope (computer science) , injury prevention , compensation (psychology) , occupational injury , workers' compensation , poison control , public health , service (business) , environmental health , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , public relations , nursing , marketing , business , law , psychology , social psychology , pathology , political science , programming language , computer science
The purpose of this article is to examine the persistent, yet underrecognized, problem of adolescent occupational injury. There is little appreciation for the magnitude and scope of this problem, including, particularly, the underlying causes and factors of adolescent occupational injury; this is especially so outside the occupational health field. There are many reasons why the scope of adolescent occupational injury remains unappreciated. For example, injury surveillance systems, including workers' compensation records, do not reveal the level of this problem because many injuries are not properly compensated. This paper examines health hazards to children in the service industries from various perspectives. This scrutiny will include an examination of adolescent occupational injury levels and the reasons why this problem is large and growing. In closing, we consider ways to improve public policies in order to portray this problem accurately, the first step toward meaningful injury prevention strategies. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.