Document ID (ISN) | 76548 |
CIS number |
01-435 |
Year |
1999 |
Convention or series no. |
DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No.2000-105
|
Author(s) |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
Title |
Work-related lung disease: Surveillance report 1999 |
Bibliographic information |
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Publications Dissemination, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226-1998, USA, 1999. xvii, 202p. Illus. |
Abstract |
This report is a summary of statistical data for various occupational respiratory diseases on work-related lung diseases in the United States. The data are presented in a series of figures and tables and cover asbestosis, coal workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, byssinosis, exposure to cotton dust, pneumopathy due to inhalation of other dust, neoplasms of the pleura, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, asthma, pneumoconiosis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Data are given on mortality, morbidity, and exposure by state, industry, occupation and causative agent. |
Descriptors (primary) |
USA; occupational diseases; statistics; respiratory diseases; lung diseases |
Descriptors (secondary) |
airborne dust; neoplasms; obstructive ventilatory impairment; extrinsic allergic alveolitis; report; tuberculosis; byssinosis; morbidity; mortality; asthma; chemical pneumonitis; pneumoconiosis; asbestosis; toxic substances; silicosis; compilation of statistics; respiratory impairment; coalworkers pneumoconiosis; compensation of occupational diseases |
Document type |
E - Books, reports, proceedings |
Country / State or Province | USA |
Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
Browse category(ies) |
Bacterial and parasitic diseases Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
|