ReviewScandinavian journal of work, environment & health2024
Asbestos and disease - a public health success story?
Review in Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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- Occupational asbestos exposure and lung cancer: contemporary research trends, exploratory genetic evidence, and global burden from 1990 to 2021.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- From Arrow to evidence: health economics and occupational health in the Nordic context.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2026Article
- A Critical Perspective on the Role of Thirdhand Smoke in Tumorigenesis: Initiator or Promoter.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Review
- Burden of Ovarian Cancer in China Attributable to Asbestos Exposure During 1990-2021 and the Projections Through 2050.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Update on mesothelioma incidence and forecast of future cases in Belgium.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Comorbidity of hypertension and lung cancer: interplay of genetics and environment.Discover oncology · 2025Review
- Burden of laryngeal cancer attributable to occupational asbestos exposure in China: A comprehensive analysis from 1990 to 2021.PloS one · 2025Article
- Incidence, mortality and survival of pleural mesothelioma in Zurich between 1981 and 2019, Switzerland.Journal of thoracic disease · 2024Article
- Towards the year 2049: The next 25 years of occupational health and safety research.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Review
- When will we have enough evidence to require improvements at the workplace?Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Article
- Five decades of occupational cancer epidemiology.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2024Review
- Asbestos exposure diagnosis in pulmonary tissues.Pathologica · 2024Review
- Global burden of mesothelioma attributable to occupational asbestos exposure in 204 countries and territories: 1990-2019.Journal of cancer research and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Science evolves but outdated testing and static risk management in the US delay protection to human health.Frontiers in toxicology · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis paper discusses the failure and success of society to decrease the adverse health effects of asbestos exposure on workers' health in relation to scientific knowledge.
methodsThe findings are based on a narrative literature review.
resultsEarly warnings of the adverse health effects of workplace exposure to asbestos were published already in the 1930s. Serious health effects, such as malignancies and fibrosis due to occupational asbestos exposure, were highlighted in major medical journals and textbooks in late 1960s. New technologies could detect also asbestos fibers in the lung of non-occupational exposed persons in the 1970s. The first bans for using asbestos came in the early 1970s, and more general bans by authorities came in the 1980s and continue until today.
conclusionsThe rather late recognition of adverse effects of asbestos exposure in the general population and measures to decrease the exposure through more general bans came rather late. However, the very strong measures such as general bans in many countries have been a success. A Swedish study showed that the general ban and other measures have decreased the risk of malignancies due to occupational exposure. The effect of the bans on adverse effects in the general population has yet to be studied. Analysis of fibers in the lungs of persons born after the bans could be an efficient method.
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