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Personal Author:
Merchant, James A. ; Boehlecke, Brian A. ; Taylor, Geoffrey
Merchant, James A. ; Boehlecke, Brian A. ; Taylor, Geoffrey Less -
Corporate Authors:
Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Diseases. Division of Respiratory Disease Studies. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health,
Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Diseases. Division of Respiratory Disease Studies. ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Less -
Description:
The first part of this book deals with the methods used to define and study occupational respiratory diseases and includes an assessment of chest x-rays, pulmonary function data, and lung impairment. The second part of the book deals with specific classes of respiratory diseases, their definition, epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. Specific topics in the second section are pneumoconioses (silicosis, acute silicosis, silicate pneumoconiosis, asbestosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis and exposure to other carbonaceous dusts, beryllium disease, pulmonary reactions to miscellaneous mineral dusts as well as man made mineral fibers and miscellaneous pneumoconioses), occupational asthma and rhinitis, hypersensitivity, chronic airways obstruction (chronic bronchitis and emphysema), byssinosis, effects of inhaled toxic agents (acute and chronic respiratory effects, and acute systemic effects of inhaled occupational agents), neoplasms (epidemiology of occupationally induced lung cancer, pathology of occupational lung cancer, clinical presentation, mesothelioma, and screening) infectious diseases (inhalation anthrax, histoplasmosis, brucellosis, tuberculosis, and psittacosis), and heart disease.

NIOSHTIC no 00169168


Content Notes:
Shipping list no.: 87-222-P.

S/N 017-033-00425-1 Item 499-F-2

Includes bibliographies and index.


Subject:
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Adverse Effects
Air Pollutants, Occupational
Diseases
Dust Diseases
Environmental Health
Environmental Monitoring
Epidemiologic Methods
Epidemiology
Etiology
Lungs
Methods
Occupational Diseases
Occupational Health Services
Respiratory Organs
Respiratory Tract Diseases
Trends
Air Pollutants, Occupational/Adverse Effects
Environmental Health/United States
Environmental Monitoring/Methods
Lungs/Dust Diseases
Occupational Diseases
Occupational Health Services/Trends
Respiratory Organs/Diseases/United States
Respiratory Tract Diseases/Epidemiology
Respiratory Tract Diseases/Etiology

Series:
DHHS publication ; no. (PHS) 86-102
Document Type:
Book
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:48cf2c31f321b1955d67ca4f669c3c29db5f20bc7c40843fc139369115d7f132
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