Occupational burden of asbestos-related cancer in argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

Annals of Global Health

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 263-268

  Pasetto, Roberto ^a   Terracini, Benedetto ^b   Marsili, Daniela ^a   Comba, Pietro ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

asbestos; burden of disease; Latin America; neoplasms; occupation

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CANCER MORTALITY; COLOMBIA; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MESOTHELIOMA; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OVARY CANCER; PERICARDIUM; REVIEW; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; TUNICA VAGINALIS; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; LARYNX TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OVARY TUMOR;

ARGENTINA; ASBESTOS; BRAZIL; CARCINOGENS; COLOMBIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MESOTHELIOMA; MEXICO; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84927624856     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22149996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aogh.2014.09.003     Document Type: Article

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