Community exposure to asbestos in Casale Monferrato: from research on psychological impact to a community needs-centered healthcare organization.

- 1 - Community Exposure to Asbestos in Casale

Introduction. Asbestos exposure has a negative impact on both the physical health of the population, and on its psychological and community components. Usually such issues are addressed via top-down strategies, but this approach is unable to address the interpersonal processes connected to living in a specific context. Method. The work carried on in Casale Monferrato since 2006 proceeds in the ...

Asbestos lung burden and asbestosis after occupational and environmental exposure in an asbestos cement manufacturing area: a necropsy study.

OBJECTIVE The largest Italian asbestos cement factory had been active in Casale Monferrato until 1986: in previous studies a substantial increase in the incidence of pleural mesothelioma was found among residents without occupational exposure to asbestos. To estimate exposure to asbestos in the population, this study evaluated the presence of histological asbestosis and the lung burden of asbes...

“Casale Monferrato is not the City of Asbestos; Casale Monferrato is the City that Fights Against Asbestos!”

Asbestos fibre burden in the lungs of patients with mesothelioma who lived near asbestos-cement factories.

BACKGROUND Epidemics of malignant mesothelioma are occurring among inhabitants of Casale Monferrato and Bari never employed in the local asbestos-cement (AC) factories. The mesothelioma risk increased with proximity of residence to both plants. OBJECTIVES To provide information on the intensity of environmental asbestos exposure, in the general population living around these factories, throug...

A cohort study on mortality among wives of workers in the asbestos cement industry in Casale Monferrato, Italy.

The study investigates mortality from cancer and other diseases in a cohort of wives of asbestos cement workers in Casale Monferrato (northwest Italy). After the exclusion of women with an occupational record in the asbestos cement industry, the cohort comprised 1964 women. Their domestic exposure was estimated according to their husbands' periods of employment in the plant: 1740 had a period o...