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PLoS ONE, 2021 Despite the use of large amounts of asbestos in the 1990s, few studies have been conducted in Korea on occupational and environmental asbestos exposure and lung cancer risk.
Da-An Huh +5 more
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Asbestos awareness among the residents of St. Kitts and Nevis: a cross-sectional study
Globalization and Health, 2022 Background High levels of public awareness regarding the hazards of asbestos, rights to health, and benefits of an asbestos-free country can increase advocacy and political commitment to a total ban on asbestos. We aimed to investigate asbestos awareness
Denrick Jeffers +3 more
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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 This paper describes progress on formulating a national asbestos profile for the country of Vietnam. The Center of Asbestos Resource, Vietnam, formulated a National Profile on Asbestos-related Occupational Health, with due reference to the International ...
Van Hai Pham +7 more
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Water Supply, 2022 Asbestos cement was a common construction material for water pipes during the twentieth century, as a replacement for metal piping that was vulnerable to corrosion.
S. Mager, M. Knopick, G. Oddy
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Geospatial Health, 2018 Asbestos is carcinogenic to humans and exposure to this substance can cause a wide range of diseases. In Poland 1997, a statutory ban was introduced on the production, use and marketing of products containing asbestos. The National Programme for Asbestos
Małgorzata Krówczyńska, Ewa Wilk
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Scientific Reports, 2020 The Asbestos Injury Relief Act in Korea requires that asbestos exposure be assessed through clinical examination and chest computed tomography (CT). However, a more specific measurement of asbestos characteristics in the lung tissue may be appropriate ...
Hyun-Sung Jung +9 more
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Asbestos Consumption and Malignant Mesothelioma Mortality Trends in the Major User Countries
Annals of Global Health, 2023 Background: The causal association between mesothelioma and asbestos exposure is conclusive, and many studies have proved that the trend in asbestos use is a strong predictor of the pattern in mesothelioma cases with an adequate latency time (generally ...
Claudio Gariazzo +2 more
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Letter from Asian Ban Asbestos Network to Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper [PDF]
, 2010 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Asian Ban Asbestos Network
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The Effect of Grinding on Tremolite Asbestos and Anthophyllite Asbestos [PDF]
Minerals, 2018 The six commercial asbestos minerals (chrysotile, fibrous actinolite, crocidolite, amosite, fibrous tremolite, and fibrous anthophyllite) are classified by the IARC as carcinogenic to humans. There are currently several lines of research dealing with the inertisation of asbestos minerals among which the dry grinding process has received considerable ...
Andrea Bloise +2 more
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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public health registries collect and maintain demographic and health data on a cohort of people with a common disease or exposure. While disease registries have proliferated in recent decades, registries comprising persons with potentially hazardous exposures—known commonly as exposure registries—are rare.
Sammy Almashat +3 more
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