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Exposures Resulting in Safety and Health Concerns for Child Laborers in Less Developed Countries

Table 2

Studies published on child labor safety and health risks which included data on multiple countries and World Health Organization (WHO) organizational regions ( of 10; Chaudhuri (2009) not listed, was economic model).

ReferenceWHO regionsNumber of countriesCountries included

Rohlman et al. (2012) [51]The Americas, Eastern Mediterranean3Egypt, Lebanon, United States

Ersado (2005) [52]Africa, The Americas, Eastern Mediterranean3Nepal, Peru, Zimbabwe

Pinzón-Rondóna et al. (2009, 2010) [53, 54]The Americas4Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Whetten et al. (2011) [55] Africa, Southeast Asia5 Cambodia, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Tanzania

Levison and Langer (2010) [56]The Americas6Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Colombia

Gamlin et al. (2015) [57]Africa, The Americas, Southeast Asia, Western Pacific6Costa Rica, India, Peru, Philippines, Tanzania, Togo

Webbink et al. (2012) [58] Africa, Southeast Asia16Bangladesh, Burundi, Central African Republic, Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Sierra Leone, Togo, Malawi, Mauritania, Somalia, Syria, Thailand, Vietnam, Yemen

Roggero et al. (2007) [59]Africa, The Americas, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, Western Pacific83Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Chad, Chile, China, Congo, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Liberia, Libya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Solomon’s Islands, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Syrian Arab Republic, Uganda, Uruguay, Tanzania, Venezuela, Vietnam, Thailand, Togo, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe