What Medical Screenings Indicate about Changes in Construction Worker Health: How much have adverse occupational health outcomes among construction workers improved over time? Evidence from 25 years of medical screening

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• Personal Author:
  Panthi, Kamalesh ; Gharipour, Mohammad ; Attarzadeh, Meghdad
• Corporate Authors:
  CPWR--The Center for Construction Research and Training ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  "In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized that workers at its nuclear facilities were at risk for occupational diseases related to beryllium exposure. The Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed), which provides free, periodic screening exams to former DOE construction workers, offers participants a blood test called the beryllium lymphocyte test that can identify beryllium sensitization (BeS). In this study, researchers used the records of 21,854 BTMed participants to estimate beryllium disease risks and claims-to-acceptance rate for chronic beryllium disease in a federal compensation program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. Stratified analyses were used to explore trends in disease frequency by age, race, sex, DOE employment duration, site, trade group, and cigarette smoking history. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Hearing Loss Lung Neoplasms Middle Aged Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive Risk Factors
• Series:
  CPWR - Center for Construction Research and Training Publications
• Subseries:
  Key Findings from Research
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  production of this document was supported by cooperative agreement OH 009762 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:na
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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