Occupational Respiratory Diseases [1986]

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• Journal Article:
  Occupational respiratory diseases
• Personal Author:
  Merchant, James A. ; Boehlecke, Brian A. ; Taylor, Geoffrey
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• 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. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  Shipping list no.: 87-222-P.
  
  S/N 017-033-00425-1 Item 499-F-2
  
  Includes bibliographies and index.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Pulmonary-system-disorders; Occupational-medicine; Worker-health; Work-practices; Health-hazards; Health-protection; Disease-prevention; Respiratory-infections
• Source:
  Merchant JA, Bochlecke BA, Taylor G, eds. Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 86-102, 1986 Sep; :1-847
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB86102
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  840 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00169168
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB87-205662
• Editor(s):
  Merchant JA; Bochlecke BA; Taylor G
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1986
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d21cf9dfdcd73cc5d180c698d3f6642c15d7398b1d842d24ebc37750a8e715e236276b8d033e4bff1433cbea5fb1664b9bdd00bee479ce586330c9333b9779d6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5828/cdc_5828_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 32.31 MB ]