Guidelines for the epidemiologic assessment of occupational asthma. Report of the Subcommittee on the Epidemiologic Assessment of Occupational Asthma, Occupational Lung Disease Committee
| Autor: | Robert M. Castellan, Alexander Blair Smith, Daniel M. Lewis, Thomas D. Matte |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Immunology Occupational disease Disease Sensitivity and Specificity Occupational hygiene Environmental health Surveys and Questionnaires Epidemiology medicine Immunology and Allergy Humans Occupational lung disease Communicable disease business.industry Incidence (epidemiology) medicine.disease Asthma United States Respiratory Function Tests Occupational Diseases Epidemiological Monitoring Physical therapy business Occupational asthma Environmental Monitoring |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology. 84(5 Pt 2) |
| ISSN: | 0091-6749 |
| Popis: | Physician reporting of cases of communicable disease has played an important role in detection and control of disease outbreaks.’ A similar expectation exists for physician reporting of occupational diseases, including occupational asthma. The diagnosis of a single case of occupational asthma may be a sentinel event that reveals the need to search for other cases, as well as remediable underlying causes.’ As stated by Rutstein et al.,3 such an occurrence may: “(1) provide the impetus for epidemiologic or industrial hygiene studies, or (2) serve as a warning signal that materials substitution, engineering control, personal protection, or medical care may be required.” Also, other purposes may be served by consequent epidemiologic and industrial hygiene studies. An epidemiologic survey may be needed to convince responsible parties that a health problem exists that is in some measure attributable to workplace exposures. An epidemiologic survey will be needed to quantitate the magnitude of a work-related health problem, whether the magnitude is expressed as disease prevalence, incidence, or some other measure. An epidemiologic study may identify personal risk factors that explain why certain persons have manifested a disease as a consequence of their occupational exposure(s). Resultant recommendations for control of exposures in the workplace may facilitate management of the index case and affected co-workers, and help prevent the occurrence of additional cases. |
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