The Global Burden of Non-Malignant Respiratory Disease Due to Occupational Airborne Exposures

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• Personal Author:
  Concha-Barrientos M ; Driscoll T ; Fingerhut, Marilyn A. ; Leigh J ; Nelson DI ; Pruss-Ustun A ; Steenland, Kyle
• Description:
  Occupational non-malignant respiratory disease arises from exposure of workers to airborne agents, mostly particulate or dusts. We describe the worldwide mortality and morbidity from asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pneumoconioses arising from these occupational exposure and focus on cases reported in the year 2000. The proportions of workers exposed to the agents, and their levels of exposure, were estimated using workforce data and the CAREX (CARcinogen EXposure) database. These were combined with relative risk measures (for asthma and COPD) or absolute risk measures (for the pneumoconioses) to develop estimates of deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) and attributable fraction (for asthma and COPD). There were an estimated 386,000 deaths (asthma: 38,000; COPD: 318,000; pneumoconioses: 30,000) and nearly 6.6 million DALYS (asthma: 1,621,000; COPD: 3,733,000, pneumoconioses: 1,288,000) due to exposure to occupational airborne particulates. Occupational airborne particulates are an important cause of death and disability worldwide. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Asthma Asthma, Occupational Dust Morbidity Mortality Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Airborne-dusts Airborne-fibers Airborne-particles Bronchial-asthma Diseases Morbidity-rates Mortality-data Mortality-rates Occupational-exposure Particulate-dust Particulates Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Colorado ; District of Columbia ; Georgia ; 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:
  432-445
• Volume:
  48
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029123
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2005 Dec; 48(6):432-445
• Email:
  timd@health.usyd.edu.au
• 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-512:1e653c5a89efc6313a3e86308623f258b2469461a1058d1da94baf87a5afe41f1a430300ef6915c4a3bbb1245311f13e83dab36d51098572d5cbcb07ae11fe51
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190175/cdc_190175_DS1.pdf
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