Accidental discovery of asbestos-related occupational pleural disease in unemployed carpenter: a healthcare safety net that needs mending / Poklicna bolezen plevre zaradi izpostavljenosti azbestu pri mizarju
| Autor: | Irena Manfredo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology business.industry Safety net Asbestosis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Occupational disease Toxicology medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Asbestos Occupational safety and health Pleural disease Family medicine Health care Medicine Apprenticeship business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology. 66:213-215 |
| ISSN: | 0004-1254 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/aiht-2015-66-2682 |
| Popis: | Unemployed persons are often on the margins of the healthcare system and under the radar of safety and health organisations, as no systematic records are kept of occupational diseases caused by exposure at previous work place. Law in Slovenia requires that asbestos-related occupational diseases are verified by establishing the causal relationship between exposure at work and its effect on the worker. This report describes a case of verifying occupational pleural disease in an unemployed carpenter who was referred for consultation with occupational health specialist as part of the regular procedure for the unemployed registered at the Employment Service of Slovenia. At the consultation it turned out that the carpenter had been exposed to asbestos when he worked as a teenage apprentice. The diagnosis of the bilateral pleural disease and asbestosis was confirmed by X-ray and high-resolution computed tomography. Because he had no record of exposure in that period, we analysed his past working environment for minerals and found chrysotile in all asbestos board samples. The case was presented to an interdisciplinary committee, which verified his disease as occupational. This case points to the need of adopting guidelines for occupational health specialists providing counsel to the national employment service so that the number of unrecorded occupational diseases is minimised and their treatment is covered by the state. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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