Who bears the costs of occupational asthma?
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Factors influencing duration of exposure with symptoms and costs of occupational asthma.
The most important factor for the prognosis of occupational asthma is the length of exposure with symptoms prior to removal from exposure. We wanted to identify factors, including socioeconomic status, that can influence the delay in submitting a claim to a medicolegal agency after the onset of asthmatic symptoms, and to confirm that this delay is associated with worse respiratory prognosis and...
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Background :Asthma is the most common respiratory disease with an increasing prevalence. On the other hand, obesity is also a challenging disease compromising health in human communities. This study sought to assess the correlation of asthma and body mass index (BMI) in occupational setting. Methods : This study was conducted in a cable manufacturing company in 2012. A total of 551 workers ...
متن کاملCosts of occupational COPD and asthma.
OBJECTIVE To estimate the number of annual deaths, as well as the direct and indirect costs of occupational COPD and asthma, in the United States in 1996. DESIGN Aggregation and analysis of national data sets collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, the Health Care Financing Administration, and other government bureaus and private firms. To assess mortality, we reviewed data fr...
متن کاملCosts of occupational asthma in the UK.
OBJECTIVES To estimate the social costs of occupational asthma in the UK. METHODS A desk-top approach using cost-of-illness methodology was employed, defining direct and indirect lifetime costs for six scenarios: a male and a female worker each exposed to isocyanates, latex and biocides (eg, glutaraldehyde) or flour. The numbers of new cases annually in each industry were estimated from Surve...
متن کاملThe public health implications of asthma.
Asthma is a very common chronic disease that occurs in all age groups and is the focus of various clinical and public health interventions. Both morbidity and mortality from asthma are significant. The number of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost due to asthma worldwide is similar to that for diabetes, liver cirrhosis and schizophrenia. Asthma management plans have, however, reduced mo...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Thorax
دوره 66 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011