Estimating occupational disease burden: a way forward.

IF 1.8 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Annals Of Work Exposures and Health Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI:10.1093/annweh/wxae040

John W Cherrie, Martie van Tongeren, Hans Kromhout

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Abstract

Estimates of occupational disease burden provide important information on which effective policy and regulations can be developed. However, there is no direct way that these data can be obtained, and most burden estimates are derived by merging different data from diverse sources to synthesize estimates of the number of people made ill or who have died from workplace exposures. In recent years, several research groups have published estimates of occupational health burden at national or global scales; these are not always consistent. The World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation have taken on the task of producing occupational disease burden estimates for several workplace agents, which we assume are to be seen as the definitive global, regional, and national data. In this commentary, we critique the WHO/ILO approach for their estimates of the non-melanoma skin cancer burden from solar ultraviolet radiation and some of their results for hazardous particulates. We provide recommendations for researchers undertaking occupational burden estimates that they should report along with their data.

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估算职业病负担：前进之路。

职业病负担估算为制定有效的政策和法规提供了重要信息。然而，这些数据没有直接的获取途径，大多数负担估算都是通过合并不同来源的数据，综合得出因工作场所暴露而患病或死亡的人数估算。近年来，一些研究团体公布了国家或全球范围内的职业健康负担估算值；这些估算值并不总是一致的。世界卫生组织和国际劳工组织承担了为几种工作场所媒介提供职业病负担估算值的任务，我们认为这些估算值应被视为全球、地区和国家的权威数据。在这篇评论中，我们对世界卫生组织/国际劳工组织估算太阳紫外线辐射导致的非黑色素瘤皮肤癌负担的方法，以及他们估算有害微粒的一些结果进行了批评。我们为进行职业负担估算的研究人员提供了建议，他们应在报告数据时一并报告。

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Annals Of Work Exposures and Health Medicine-Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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19.20%

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期刊介绍： About the Journal Annals of Work Exposures and Health is dedicated to presenting advances in exposure science supporting the recognition, quantification, and control of exposures at work, and epidemiological studies on their effects on human health and well-being. A key question we apply to submission is, "Is this paper going to help readers better understand, quantify, and control conditions at work that adversely or positively affect health and well-being?" We are interested in high quality scientific research addressing: the quantification of work exposures, including chemical, biological, physical, biomechanical, and psychosocial, and the elements of work organization giving rise to such exposures; the relationship between these exposures and the acute and chronic health consequences for those exposed and their families and communities; populations at special risk of work-related exposures including women, under-represented minorities, immigrants, and other vulnerable groups such as temporary, contingent and informal sector workers; the effectiveness of interventions addressing exposure and risk including production technologies, work process engineering, and personal protective systems; policies and management approaches to reduce risk and improve health and well-being among workers, their families or communities; methodologies and mechanisms that underlie the quantification and/or control of exposure and risk. There is heavy pressure on space in the journal, and the above interests mean that we do not usually publish papers that simply report local conditions without generalizable results. We are also unlikely to publish reports on human health and well-being without information on the work exposure characteristics giving rise to the effects. We particularly welcome contributions from scientists based in, or addressing conditions in, developing economies that fall within the above scope.