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A series of 100 full size radiographs illustrating the range of asbestos related radiographic changes was collected by the Asbestos International Association to provide a demonstration and teaching supplement to the ILO 1980 International Classification of the Radiographic Appearances of Pneumoconioses. Each film was read by 12 experienced readers from ten countries; the readings have been summ...

Foreword This is a paper of the ILO=s International Migration Branch. The objectives of the Branch are to contribute to: (i) the formulation, application and evaluation of international migration policies suited to the economic and social aims of governments, employers= and workers= organizations; and (ii) the increase of equality of opportunity and treatment of migrants and the protection of t...

Conventional roentgenograms constitute the groundwork for the evaluation of diffuse interstitial lung disease (DILD). ILO classification with its symbols (additionally extended to granulomatoses) does not comprise pathoanatomic assumptions and does not enter lesion genesis for it could lead to diagnostic misconception. "High resolution" computer tomography (HRCT) provides the evaluation of lesi...

The asbestos cancer epidemic may take as many as 10 million lives before asbestos is banned worldwide and exposures are brought to an end. In many developed countries, in the most affected age groups, mesothelioma may account for 1% of all deaths. In addition to mesotheliomas, 5-7% of all lung cancers can be attributed to occupational exposures to asbestos. The asbestos cancer epidemic would ha...

Since 1950, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have had a common definition of occupational health. The definition was adopted by the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health at its First Session (1950) and revised at its 12th Session (Geneva, November 1995). Occupational health should aim to promote and maintain the highest degree of physi...

The extent of agreement between International Labour Office (ILO) and clinical readings of chest x ray films from construction workers was studied. From a survey of 5898 workers 258 subjects with a profusion of small opacities of > or = 1/1 and a stratified sample of subjects with profusion < 1/1 were selected. Only 41% of the films classified as ILO profusion category > or = 1/1 were clinicall...

In this article, through a comparative study between ILO fundamental Conventions and Chinese labor law, the writer points out several problems and shortcomings embodied in Chinese labor law. This article analyzes the status of Chinese trade unions and questions their ability to protect the interests of the Chinese working class. As for collective bargaining, the writer reviews the relevant Chin...

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