Emerging opportunities to prevent occupational lung disease

Occupational lung disease.

Despite federally mandated safety standards, occupational lung disease remains one of the most common work-related injuries. Inhaled dust can result in a range of tissue injury in the lung and can lead to significant respiratory insufficiency causing death. Although silicosis and coal worker's pneumoconiosis are becoming less common, hypersensitivity pneumonitis is increasingly recognized as an...

Occupational Lung Disease

'Department of Hygimene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Goudi, Athens 115-27, Greece; 2Department of Epidemiology and Center for Cancer Prewention, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; 3Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Athens School of Public Health, Leoforos Alexandras 196, Athens 115-21, Greece; 4Medical Cent...

Occupational Lung Disease

To the uninitiated the term "occupational lung diseases" encompasses primarily four categories: coal workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, asbestosis, and berylliosis. Gee et al. in this primer provide evidence that agents injurious to the respiratory system are far more numerous and diverse than those described in general pathology texts. The breadth of physical, chemical, and biological irritan...

Occupational interstitial lung disease.

Occupational interstitial lung diseases are a diverse group of disorders of varied cause. Occupational causes account for a significant portion of all interstitial lung diseases, and new causes continue to be described. Although some are diseases of antiquity, they continue to occur in the workplace and often are misdiagnosed as "idiopathic" when physicians miss the connection to past-inhaled e...

Safety and Occupational Health: Challenges and Opportunities in Emerging Economies