The Global Burden of Selected Occupational Diseases and Injury Risks: Methodology and Summary

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• Personal Author:
  Concha-Barrientos M ; Corvalan C ; Driscoll T ; Fingerhut, Marilyn A. ; Leigh J ; Nelson DI ; Pruss-Ustun A ; Punnett, Laura ; Steenland, Kyle
• Description:
  Around the globe, work has a heavy impact on health. To better advise policy makers, we assessed the global burden of disease and injury due to selected occupational hazards. This article presents an overview, and describes the methodology employed in the companion studies. Using the World Health Organization (WHO) Comparative Risk Assessment methodology, we applied relative risk measures to the proportions of the population exposed to selected occupational hazards to estimate attributable fractions, deaths, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). Numerous occupational risk factors had to be excluded due to inadequate global data. In 2000, the selected risk factors were responsible worldwide for 37% of back pain, 16% of hearing loss, 13% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), 11% of asthma, 8% of injuries, 9% of lung cancer, and 2% of leukemia. These risks at work caused 850,000 deaths worldwide and resulted in the loss of about 24 million years of healthy life. Needlesticks accounted for about 40% of Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C infections and 4.4% of HIV infections in health care workers. Exposure to occupational hazards accounts for a significant proportion of the global burden of disease and injury, which could be substantially reduced through application of proven risk prevention strategies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Asthma Asthma, Occupational Health Personnel Hearing Loss Lung Lung Diseases Mortality Musculoskeletal Diseases Neoplasms Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Back-injuries Bronchial-asthma Diseases Health-care-personnel Hearing-loss Injuries Lung-cancer Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-diseases Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Pulmonary-system-disorders Risk-analysis Risk-factors Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; District of Columbia ; Georgia ; Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 8
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OD - Office of the Director
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  400-418
• Volume:
  48
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029116
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2005 Dec; 48(6):400-418
• Contact Point Address:
  Deborah Imel Nelson, Geological Society of America, PO Box 9140, Boulder, Colorado 80301-9140
• Email:
  dnelson@geosociety.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3091677e179508630412e54fee578e3f5370517de090d0671a6622653e1ad1d6f13d4a3bf4c8ec2ad3d679df0b03a66d91b4b52033a6981f78dd93cbfc472c5d
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