Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance Report 1994

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• Journal Article:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This report was the third in a series of summaries of surveillance data for various occupational respiratory diseases. Most of the data reported was derived from 1968 through 1990. Data were obtained from the Coal Workers' X-ray Surveillance Program, the National Occupational Health Survey of Mining, the Sentinel Event Notification System for Occupational Risks, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Department of Labor, the Social Security Administration, the Mine Safety and Health Administration, OSHA, the Bureau of Mines, and the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Data on morbidity, mortality, and occupational exposures were provided in tabular form. Major topics covered in the report included asbestosis, malignant neoplasms of the pleura, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, pneumoconiosis due to other inorganic dust, unspecified pneumoconiosis, byssinosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and occupational asthma. Description provided by NIOSH
• Subjects:
  • Air Pollutants, Occupational
  • Asbestos
  • Asthma
  • Asthma, Occupational
  • Byssinosis
  • Coal
  • Coal Mining
  • Dust
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services
  More +
• Keywords:
  • NIOSH-Author; Airborne-dusts; Asbestos-fibers; Asbestosis; Bronchial-asthma; Byssinosis; Coal-dust; Coal-mining; Coal-workers-pneumoconiosis; Cotton-dust; Dust-exposure; Dust-inhalation; Epidemiology; Hypersensitivity-pneumonitis; Information-systems; Lung-disease; Lung-disorders; Lung-irritants; Malignant-neoplasms; Medical-monitoring; Miners; Mine-workers; Mining-industry; Morbidity-rates; Mortality-data; Mortality-rates; Mortality-surveys; Occupational-asthma; Occupational-diseases; Occupational-exposure; Occupational-respiratory-disease; Pneumoconiosis; Pulmonary-disorders; Pulmonary-function; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Racial-factors; Respiratory-system-disorders; Risk-factors; Sex-factors; Silica-dusts; Silicosis; Statistical-analysis; Surveillance-programs; Tuberculosis
• Source:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 94-120, 1994 Aug; :1-162
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  163 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00224017
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95-181988
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6332/cdc_6332_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 11.10 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:28d7906bdf75117d91d25bd1b5f2d44f102ad9bd0c27b9f21ab3e66e9ae9bb43f4a81d24edab590c4b70a69ecb1c132f923acf32a515ff3697405e2a989de766