Prevalence of occupational lung disease in a random sample of former mineworkers, Libode district, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 305-313

  Trapido, Anna S ^a   Mqoqi, Nokuzola P ^a   Williams, Brian C ^a   White, Neil W ^b   Solomon, Albert ^c   Goode, Richard H ^d   Macheke, Cecil M ^a   Davies, Anthony J ^e   Panter, Clifford ^e  

^a Epidemiology Research Unit   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND MEDICAL SCHOOL   (South Africa)

^d Minerals and Energy Policy Center   (South Africa)

^e National Centre for Occupational Health   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community based; Compensation; Epidemiology; Latent period; Migrant; Mineworkers; Pneumoconiosis; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; SILICOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOLD; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPIROMETRY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 0031716954     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199810)34:4<305::AID-AJIM2>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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