Occupational and Environmental Health Effects of Informal Electronic Waste Recycling - A Focus on Agbogbloshie, Ghana

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• Alternative Title:
  Proc Congr Int Ergon Assoc (2021)
• Personal Author:
  Fobil, Julius ; Abotsi, Priscillah ; Acquah, Augustine A. ; Arko-Mensah, John ; D’Souza, Clive ; Martin, Bernard
• Description:
  The unregulated and unorganized structure of informal electronic waste recycling worksites exposes workers to numerous occupational hazards. This context also presents research challenges in collecting exposure data to establish linkages with adverse health effects and development of risk-mitigating strategies. This paper presents some findings from a 5-year multinational and multi-institutional collaboration of academic and government partners, which documented extensive occupational and environmental health conditions at the Agbogbloshie electronic waste site in central Accra, Ghana.
• Subjects:
  Agbogbloshie Article Electronic Waste Ergonomics Occupational Health
• Source:
  Proc Congr Int Ergon Assoc (2021). 222:746-752
• Pubmed ID:
  34263269
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC8277146
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  T42 OH008455/OH/NIOSH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; U01 TW010103/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/ ; U2R TW010110/TW/FIC NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  222
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20064871
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c28c0c74dd2bff16ef43abcf6d7578a19dcb89da73b5c716c58c989fcf475544bcbc9adcbca574e34c447f58c7dadc6ae21a99a876b6f5741bd1433bac7f0e1d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/113861/cdc_113861_DS1.pdf
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