Occupational cancer burden in developing countries and the problem of informal workers

Environmental Health

Proceedings

Vilma Sousa Santana¹  Fatima Sueli Neto Ribeiro² 

[1] Program of Environmental and Workers Health, Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil;Social Nutrition Department, Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil;

关键词: Personal Protective Equipment;    Informal Economy;    Cancer Burden;    Informal Worker;    Carcinogen Exposure;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-069X-10-S1-S10

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Most workplaces in developing countries are “informal”, i.e. they are not regularly surveyed/inspected and laws for workers’ protection are not implemented. Research on occupational risks in informal workplaces and the related cancer burden is needed. The results of studies addressing exposures among informal workers are difficult to generalize because of the specificities of social contexts, and study populations are small. The estimation of the burden of cancers attributable to occupational exposures is also made difficult by the fact that occupational cancers are usually clinically indistinguishable from those unrelated to occupation.

【 授权许可】

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© Santana and Ribeiro; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011