Collection

Occupational lung disease

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Occupational lung diseases pose a significant public health and economic challenge worldwide. In Great Britain alone, occupational lung disease leads to an estimated 12,000 deaths and 400,000 lost working days each year. Exposures in the workplace can lead to a wide range of lung diseases, including: Asthma, COPD, pneumoconioses (e.g. asbestosis, silicosis, Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis), respiratory cancers, diffuse pleural thickening and pleural plaques, and allergic alveolitis and byssinosis. Many of these are serious diseases which can lead to substantial disability or even death, but they are also avoidable through preventive interventions in the workplace. In support of United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3: Good health and wellbeing and 10: Reduced inequalities, BMC Pulmonary Medicine has launched this new Collection on "Occupational lung disease" to bring together basic and clinical research to develop our understanding of such conditions and open new avenues for risk stratification and therapeutic intervention.

Editors

  • Alice Turner Alice Turner , 

    Alice Turner

    Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

  • Renee N Carey Renee N Carey  &

    Renee N Carey

    Senior Research Fellow, School of Population Health, Curtin University, Australia

  • Gareth Walters Gareth Walters

    Gareth Walters

    NHS Consultant in Occupational Respiratory Medicine, Birmingham, and Honorary Senior Clinical Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, UK

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