The burden of chronic mercury intoxication in artisanal small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe: Data availability and preliminary estimates

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Steckling, Nadine ^a,b,c   Bose O'Reilly, Stephan ^b,c   Pinheiro, Paulo ^a   Plass, Dietrich ^d   Shoko, Dennis ^e   Drasch, Gustav ^f   Bernaudat, Ludovic ^g   Siebert, Uwe ^c,h,i   Hornberg, Claudia ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^d UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^e Tailjet Consultancy Services   (Zimbabwe)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^h MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Artisanal small scale gold mining; Disability Adjusted life years; Environmental burden of disease; Mercury; Occupational health; Zimbabwe

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOLD MINE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; MERCURY (ELEMENT); MINING INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOXICITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTISANAL SMALL SCALE GOLD MINING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISABILITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MERCURIALISM; MINER; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE; ZIMBABWE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; NEWBORN; POLLUTANT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TOXICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ZIMBABWE;

GOLD; MERCURY; POLLUTANT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MERCURY; MINING; PREVALENCE; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84965184231     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-13-111     Document Type: Article

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