Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines ...

The study found significant association between age, educational background, marital status and drinking alcohol on respiratory disorders.

This study investigated respiratory disorders among gold miners in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African country.

Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines ...

The study found significant association between age, educational background, marital status and drinking alcohol on respiratory disorders and important ...

Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines ...

The prevalence of asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and emphysema were respectively 47.55%, 14.29%, 9.69% and 5.10%. Coughing was the most cited respiratory symptom ...

Case Report: Gold Miner's Lung: A Case of Chronic Hypersensitivity ...

To our knowledge, this is the first description of an occupational interstitial lung disease in clandestine gold miners linked to the use of ...

Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

Pulmonary silicosis, the disease most commonly caused by exposure to crystalline silica dust, was described in South African gold miners in the early 1900s – ...

Access of migrant gold miners to compensation for occupational ...

A legacy of the South African gold mining industry, now in decline, is a large burden of silicosis and tuberculosis among former migrant miners from rural ...

Trends in silicosis prevalence and the healthy worker effect among ...

Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry ...

Occupational respiratory disease in mining

Coal workers' pneumoconiosis, asbestos related diseases, lung cancer and other occupational respiratory diseases remain of considerable importance even after ...

Article Versions Notes - MDPI

Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines in Ghana. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2017, 14, 337. https://doi.org/10.3390 ...

Tackling injustices of occupational lung disease acquired in South ...

Marks S. The silent scourge? Silicosis, respiratory disease and gold-mining in South Africa. J Ethn Migr Stud. 2006;32(04):569–89 ...

Respiratory Diseases among South African Coalminers

To develop a set of evidence-based recommendations for the South African coal mining industry to address any risk for work-related adverse respiratory effects.

Occupational lung diseases in the mining industry - jstor

Lung Diseases, 1981;2:393-412. 6. Reiser KM, Hesterberg TW, Cross CE, et al ... ease in gold miners, in Walton WH (ed): Inhaled. Particles, IV. Oxford ...

The Influence of Silicosis on Deteriorating Lung Function in Gold ...

A stratified, random sample of 242 miners who were part of a cohort of 1,197 gold miners who had been employed underground in gold mines for a mean period ...

Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis and Other Mining-Related Lung ...

Mine workers may develop diseases other than classic pneumoconiosis from their occupational exposures, including obstructive lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, ...

Occupational lung disease in the South African mining industry

Silicosis demonstrates these aspects well. Importantly, the proportion of black gold miners found to have silicosis at autopsy increased from 3 ...

The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases ...

Seven estimated risk of pneumonia in welders or in individuals with metal fume exposure (231, 232, 235–239); two also estimated risk for inorganic dusts (231, ...

[PDF] Prevalence of occupational lung disease among Botswana ...

Former miners in Botswana have a high prevalence of previously unrecognised pneumoconiosis, indicative of high previous exposures to fibrogenic respirable ...

Health Risks of Gold Miners: A Synoptic Review

Hnizdo, E. and Murray, J.: 1998, Risk of pulmonary tuberculosis relative to silicosis and exposure to silica dust in South African gold miners, Occupational and ...

Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African mining industry

Results: From 1975 to 2007, the proportions of white and black gold mine workers with silicosis increased from 18 to 22% and from 3 to 32% respectively. Cases ...