Global Burden of Disease of Mercury Used in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining

Global Burden of Disease of Mercury Used in Artisanal Small-Scale Gold Mining

Background: Artisanal small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is the world's largest anthropogenic source of mercury emission. Gold miners are highly exposed to metallic mercury and suffer occupational mercury intoxication. The global disease burden as a result of this exposure is largely unknown becaus...

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Main Authors: Nadine Steckling, Myriam Tobollik, Dietrich Plass, Claudia Hornberg, Bret Ericson, Richard Fuller, Stephan Bose-O'Reilly
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Ubiquity Press 2017
Subjects:
artisanal small-scale gold mining
burden of disease
disability-adjusted life year
global
DALY
mercury
mercury intoxication
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/9a958e8dcf244b3aae1dda40c1f9c43f
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