Titre : | Street children in Pakistan : A situational analysis of social conditions and nutritional status. (2004) |
Auteurs : | Moazzam ALI ; DE MUYNCK (Aime) : BEL. Institute of Tropical Medicine. Antwerp. ; SHAHAB (Saqib) : PAK. Health Services Academy. Islamabad. ; Hiroshi USHIJIMA ; University of Tokyo. Institute of International Health. Graduate School of Medicine. Department of Developmental Medical Sciences. The Hango Bunkyo Ku. JPN |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | Social science and medicine (vol. 59, n° 8, 2004) |
Pagination : | 1707-1717 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Pauvreté ; Enfant ; Homme ; Pakistan ; Asie ; Statut social ; Malnutrition ; Maladie nutrition |
Résumé : |
[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS R0xerzBd. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. This paper examines the social conditions and nutritional status of street children in Pakistan. Nutritional status is evaluated by an assessment of height and weight relative to age. A heterogeneous sample of 108 street children in the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad was studied. One hundred and one of them were children "on the street" having regular family contact ; seven were "of the street", without any family contact. Most street children came from large families which had recently moved to the city in search of economic opportunities. Their parents had low education levels and were either unemployed or employed in unskilled occupations. Poverty clearly was an important factor. The majority of the children moved to the street to augment family income. Most of the children were males (81%) and the average age at beginning life on the street was under 10 years. The majority was working 8-12 h daily with an average income of Rs. 44-60 per day (US accessibility.tpl.html,v 1.2 2022/10/28 13:22:25 qvarin Exp $ -->
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