Protecting Workers' Health in the Third World: National and International Strategies

Marc Notes: Papers based on the Fourth Takemi Symposium on International Health, held in Boston in the fall of 1990.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: This inquiry into Third World health problems linked to industrialization offers positive directions for both national and international strategies. Occupational health and safety issues, often given low priority as developing countries seek to advance their economies, are seen in their compelling importance through studies on China, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, Nicaragua, South Africa, and Sri Lanka.

Contributor Bio:  Unknown As a pediatrician, writer, wife, and mother, Perri Klass has demonstrated how medicine is integral to the health of families and communities, and how doctors themselves struggle to balance the conflicting needs of profession, self, and family. As medical director of Reach Out and Read, she encourages other pediatricians to foster pre-reading skills in their young patients. While earning her M. D. at Harvard, Klass contributed articles to "Mademoiselle" and "The New York Times" as well as to scientific and medical journals. She also wrote her first book, "A Not Entirely Benign Procedure "(1987), which chronicles her introduction to medicine and motherhood. In the following years she has continued to publish books, essays, award-winning short stories, a novel, and numerous articles, ranging from professional papers to popular journalism and travel pieces. Contributor Bio:  Reich, Michael R MICHAEL R. REICH is Director of the Takemi Program in International Health and Associate Professor of International Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Contributor Bio:  Okubo, Toshiteru TOSHITERU OKUBO is Professor of Environmental Epidemiology at the Institute of Industrial Ecological Sciences, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan.