Evaluation of the exposure to coal dust and prevalence of pneumoconiosis in underground mining in three Colombian departments

Introduction: Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis is a chronic and irreversible disease representing a public health problem. Objective: To estimate the prevalence of pneumoconiosis and its associated factors among underground coal miners in the Colombian departments of Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Norte de Sa...

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Autores Principales: Varona-Uribe, Marcela, Ibáñez-Pinilla, Milcíades, Briceno-Ayala, Leonardo, Groot, Helena, Narváez, Diana, Palma, Marién, Herrera, Diego, Morgan, Gloria, Torres, Carlos
Formato: Artículo (Article)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: NLM (Medline) 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23533
https://doi.org/10.7705/biomedica.v38i4.4183