ReviewCurrent environmental health reports2019
Electronic Waste Recycling: Occupational Exposures and Work-Related Health Effects.
Review in Current environmental health reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A systematic evidence map for the evaluation of noncancer health effects and exposures to polychlorinated biphenyl mixtures.Environmental research · 2023Pooled it
- Enhancing informal workers' tools to reduce workplace injuries: a quasi-randomized control trial of electronic waste recyclers in Thailand.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Trial
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- Environmental Determinants of Health: NOVA National School of Public Health Research to Tackle Ongoing Threats and Challenges.Portuguese journal of public health · 2024Article
- The Minderoo-Monaco Commission on Plastics and Human Health.Annals of global health · 2023Review
- Occupational Exposure among Electronic Repair Workers in Ghana.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A perspective on persistent toxicants in veterans and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: identifying exposures determining higher ALS risk.Journal of neurology · 2022Review
- Respiratory Disorders Related to e-Waste Exposure among Workers in the Informal Sector in a Sub-Saharan African City: An Exposed Nonexposed Study.Pulmonary medicine · 2022Article
- HBM4EU Occupational Biomonitoring Study on e-Waste-Study Protocol.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Work Task Association with Lead Urine and Blood Concentrations in Informal Electronic Waste Recyclers in Thailand and Chile.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Metal exposure of workers during recycling of electronic waste: a cross-sectional study in sheltered workshops in Germany.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2021Article
- Status of resource recycling stations in Taiwan and recycling work-related health effects.Tzu chi medical journalReview
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
purpose of reviewElectronic waste (e-waste) is a global public health challenge. E-waste recycling workers may be exposed to chemical, physical, ergonomic, and psychosocial hazards. This review provides an overview of recent research on occupational exposures in e-waste recycling and work-related health effects that can impact e-waste workers. RECENT
findingsE-waste workers are exposed to a variety of chemicals including metals, particulates, persistent organic compounds, and flame retardants. Exposure varies according to job task with higher exposures observed for dismantling and burning e-waste. Exposure to job stress and physical hazards (e.g., noise) also occurs. Many studies have measured workers' exposure in the e-waste recycling industry; fewer have investigated health effects. Biological measures were reported more often than external exposure measures. In order to protect workers, efforts are required to better understand exposures and their health effects. Removing hazardous materials from electronic equipment and reducing e-waste production would benefit workers, communities, and the environment.
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