Notice to Readers
Availability of Surveillance Report
on Work-Related Lung Diseases
CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
(NIOSH) has
released the Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance Report,
1996.
This report, the fourth in the series, summarizes occupational
respiratory
disease surveillance data, focusing on pneumoconiosis (asbestosis,
coal
workers' pneumoconiosis, silicosis, byssinosis, unspecified/other
pneumoconioses) mortality surveillance. The report is organized
into two
sections -- United States and States. The U.S. section updates
pneumoconiosis mortality surveillance data presented in the 1994
WoRLD
report, by incorporating new data for 1991 and 1992, and includes
exposure
data for asbestos, silica, coal mine dust and a combined
pneumoconiotic
agent category. The States section provides state-by-state profiles
of
pneumoconiosis mortality surveillance data and is intended to
provide a
snapshot of each state's pneumoconiosis mortality from 1968 to
1992.
Copies of the 1996 WoRLD report are available from Surveillance
Section, Epidemiological Investigations Branch, Division of
Respiratory
Disease Studies, NIOSH, CDC, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV
26505-2888; fax (304) 285-6111; e-mail world@niords1.em.cdc.gov.
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