Apportionment in Asbestos-Related Disease for Purposes of Compensation.
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Apportionment in asbestos-related disease for purposes of compensation.
Workers' compensation systems attempt to evaluate claims for occupational disease on an individual basis using the best guidelines available to them. This may be difficult when there is more than one risk factor associated with the outcome, such as asbestos and cigarette smoking, and the occupational exposures is not clearly responsible for the disease. Apportionment is an approach that involve...
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عنوان ژورنال: INDUSTRIAL HEALTH
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.40.295