Effect of an educational intervention on occupational behaviors related to mercury use in artisanal small-scale gold mining communities

Unsafe Occupational Health Behaviors: Understanding Mercury-Related Environmental Health Risks to Artisanal Gold Miners in Ghana

1 Department of Environmental Science, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, 2 Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Health Sciences Addition, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 3 Biological, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, 4 Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Water Research Institute...

Mercury Use in Artisanal Small-scale Gold Mining Threatens Human Health

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Quicksilver & Gold: Mercury Pollution from Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining

Global Burden of Disease of Mercury Used in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining.

BACKGROUND Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest anthropogenic source of mercury emission. Gold miners are highly exposed to metallic mercury and suffer occupational mercury intoxication. The global disease burden as a result of this exposure is largely unknown because the informal character of ASGM restricts the availability of reliable data. OBJECTIVE To estimate t...

An Integrated Assessment Approach to Address Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining in Ghana

Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is growing in many regions of the world including Ghana. The problems in these communities are complex and multi-faceted. To help increase understanding of such problems, and to enable consensus-building and effective translation of scientific findings to stakeholders, help inform policies, and ultimately improve decision making, we utilized an Integ...