High prevalence of respiratory symptoms among workers in the development section of a manually operated coal mine in a developing country: A cross sectional study |
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| Authors: | Simon HD Mamuya Magne Bråtveit Yohana Mashalla Bente E Moen |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway;(2) Section for Occupational Medicine, University of Bergen, Norway;(3) Department of Community Health, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania;(4) Department of Physiology, Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
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| Abstract: | Background Few studies of miners have been carried out in African countries; most are from South Africa, where the working conditions are assumed to be better than in the rest of Africa. Several studies have focused on respiratory disorders among miners, but development workers responsible for creating underground road ways have not been studied explicitly. This is the first study assessing the associations between exposure to dust and quartz and respiratory symptoms among coal mine workers in a manually operated coal mine in Tanzania, focusing on development workers, as they have the highest exposure to coal dust. |
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