ArticleInternational journal of occupational and environmental health2016
The attributable annual health costs of U.S. occupational lead poisoning.
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- Industries With the Highest Occupational Blood Lead Test Results, California Occupational Blood Lead Registry, 2020‒2021.American journal of public health · 2022Article
- Cereal and Juice, Lead and Arsenic, Our Children at Risk: A Call for the FDA to Re-Evaluate the Allowable Limits of Lead and Arsenic That Children May Ingest.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Symptoms Associated with Low Threshold Lead Poisoning Among Roadside and Organized Panel Beaters in Enugu Metropolis, Nigeria.Journal of health & pollution · 2021Article
- The urban lead (Pb) burden in humans, animals and the natural environment.Environmental research · 2021Review
- Influence of zinc levels on the toxic manifestations of lead exposure among the occupationally exposed workers.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2019Article
- Reducing occupational lead exposures: Strengthened standards for a healthy workforce.Neurotoxicology · 2018Review
- Near-Infrared Fluorescent Probe for Sensitive Detection of Pb(II) Ions in Living Cells.Inorganica chimica acta · 2017Article
- Resurgent lead poisoning and renewed public attention towards environmental social justice issues: A review of current efforts and call to revitalize primary and secondary lead poisoning prevention for pregnant women, lactating mothers, and children within the U.S.International journal of occupational and environmental healthReview
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Abstract
backgroundU.S. occupational lead standards have not changed for decades, while knowledge about lead's health effects has grown substantially.
objectiveThe objective of this analysis was twofold: to estimate the attributable annual societal costs of health damages associated with occupationally lead-exposed U.S. workers and, more broadly, to develop methods for a fuller valuation of health damages.
methodsI combined data voluntarily reported to NIOSH on the number of highly exposed workers with published literature on the health effects of lead in adults to estimate the potential health benefits of lowering the U.S. occupational limit. I developed simple algorithms for monetizing more fully both the direct medical and indirect (productivity) damages associated with those high lead exposures.
resultsI estimated direct medical costs of $141 million (2014US$) per year for 16 categories of health endpoints, and combined direct and indirect costs of over $392 million (2014US$) per year for the 10,000 or so U.S. workers with high occupational lead exposures.
conclusionsReducing allowable occupational lead limits produces annual societal benefits of almost $40,000 per highly exposed worker. Given underreporting of actual exposures and the omission of important health effects, this is likely a severe underestimate.
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