Health Care and Social Issues of Immigrant Rescue and Recovery Workers at the World Trade Center Site

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• Personal Author:
  Afilaka AA ; Bienenfeld LA ; Chasan R ; de-la-Hoz RE ; Herbert R ; Hill S ; Wilk-Rivard E
• Description:
  This article reviews the experience of a unique occupational group of World Trade Center (WTC) workers: immigrant workers. This group is comprised largely of men, laborers, who are first-generation immigrants. The majority of these workers are from Latin America (predominantly from Ecuador and Colombia) or from Eastern Europe (predominantly from Poland). Our data shows that the disease profile observed in these workers was what we have previously reported for WTC working population as a whole. Recent reports have begun to document the disproportionate burden of occupational hazards, injuries, and illnesses experienced by immigrant workers in the United States. The WTC experience of immigrants exemplified this burden but, additionally, highlighted that this burden is exacerbated by limitations in access to appropriate health care, disability and compensation benefits, and vocational rehabilitation services. A clinical program that was designed to address the complex medical and psychosocial needs of these workers in a comprehensive manner was successfully established. Full justice for these workers depends on larger societal changes. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Diagnosis Epidemiology Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Health Promotion Mental Disorders Mental Health Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Clinical-diagnosis Health-care-personnel Health-hazards Health-programs Health-services Health-surveys Medical-facilities Medical-monitoring Medical-research Medical-services Medical-treatment Mental-disorders Mental-health Mental-stress Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-psychology Psychological-effects Psychological-factors Psychological-reactions Psychological-responses Psychological-stress Sociological-factors Stress Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Worker-health Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  50
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035368
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2008 Dec; 50(12):1329-1334
• Contact Point Address:
  Rafael E. de la Hoz, MD, MPH, WTC Monitoring and Treatment Program, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1059, One Gustave L. Levy Place, New York, NY 10029
• Email:
  Rafael.delaHoz@mssm.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Services
• Performing Organization:
  Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20040715
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20090714
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d6eeb88a066c652b6caf0759713f8baf710b2de8c21653cfcbab66cf515d1f9b54d53e742a3b6f18a98e5d399a2c38648c301dfb664ea81b27c29057d817207f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/187253/cdc_187253_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 179.53 KB ]