Perceptions of health hazards in the narratives of Italian migrant workers at an Australian asbestos mine (1943-1966)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1047-1059

  Cappelletto, Francesca ^a   Merler, Enzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b National Health Service   (Italy)

Author keywords

Australia; Memories of migration; Mining; Narrative analysis; Occupational hazards; Social history; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

HEALTH RISK; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MIGRANT WORKER; MINING; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; TUBERCULOSIS; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; ASBESTOS, CROCIDOLITE; ASBESTOSIS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NARRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CONTROL, FORMAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0037366142     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(02)00102-8     Document Type: Article

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