RESPIRATORY HEALTH AT WORK
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Providing national and international leadership for preventing work-related respiratory diseases and optimizing the respiratory health of workers by generating new knowledge and transferring that knowledge into practice.
New Publications and Projects
- Current asthma and asthma-like symptoms among workers at a Veterans Administration Medical Center
- A Bayesian approach for summarizing and modeling time-series exposure data with left censoring.
- Health problems and disinfectant product exposure among staff at a large multi-specialty hospital.
- Allergic sinusitis and severe asthma caused by occupational exposure to locust bean gum: Case report.
- Respiratory morbidity among US coal miners in states outside of central Appalachia.
- Controlling Respirable Dust in Coal Mining Operations
- Smart Ventilation to Control Airborne Pollutants and Physical Stressors in Underground Metal/Nonmetal Mines
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- Page last reviewed: January 26, 2017
- Page last updated: October 11, 2017
- Content source:
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Respiratory Health Division