Occupational and environmental mercury exposure among small-scale gold miners in the Talensi-Nabdam District of Ghana's Upper East region

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6079-6085

  Paruchuri, Yasaswi ^a   Siuniak, Amanda ^a   Johnson, Nicole ^a   Levin, Elena ^a   Mitchell, Katherine ^a   Goodrich, Jaclyn M ^b   Renne, Elisha P ^a   Basu, Niladri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Fish consumption; Indigenous peoples; Mining; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

DIETARY EXPOSURE; ELEMENTAL MERCURY; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; FISH CONSUMPTION; GOLD MINERS; GOLD MINING; HAIR MERCURY; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES; MEDIAN VALUE; MERCURY EXPOSURE; MERCURY LEVELS; METHYL MERCURY; MINING COMMUNITIES; MINING INDUSTRY; MINING SECTOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPEARMAN CORRELATION; URINARY MERCURY;

BODY FLUIDS; FISH; GOLD; GOLD MINES; HEALTH RISKS; MERCURY (METAL); MERCURY COMPOUNDS; MINERS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

AMALGAM; GOLD; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY;

FISH; GOLD MINE; HEALTH RISK; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MERCURY (ELEMENT); OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FISH; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INTAKE; GHANA; HAIR ANALYSIS; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MALE; MINER; MINING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICY; PORTION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SUMMER; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; FOOD CONTAMINATION; GHANA; GOLD; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; MERCURY; METHYLMERCURY COMPOUNDS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

GHANA;

EID: 77958089817     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.08.022     Document Type: Article

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