Publications by authors named "Elzbieta Cwynar"
Background: The adverse health effects of occupational exposure to asbestos dust may occur several years after first exposure. The objective of the study was to assess the relationship between lesions in the respiratory system and the factors contributing to occupational exposure to asbestos described in the first medical examination as well as to analyze the factors responsible for the progression of these changes in further medical tests.
Material And Methods: The study group comprised 591 former workers of asbestos processing plant "Gambit" in Lubawka.
Background: In this report the increase in the number of notifications of suspicions of diseases caused by the way the job is per formed, observed recently in the Regional Center of Occupational Medicine in Wroclaw, is highlighted. The problem stems from the recognition of medical certification of such diseases as occupational diseases only in one third of all notifications of suspicions.
Material And Methods: The case study was based on statistical data concerning notifications of suspected occupational diseases collected in the Branches of the Regional Center of Occupational Medicine in Wroclaw in the years 2006-2011, as well as on medical certificates issued by the Center's Out-patient Clinics of Occupational Diseases.
Background: Based on a 11-year implementation of the Amiantus Project, this paper reports the results of prophylactic medical examinations of the former workers of asbestos processing plants. The Project involving employees of 28 former asbestos plants was started by the Ministry of Health in 2000 under the Act on the ban of all products containing asbestos.
Material And Methods: Preventive examinations, continued in 13 centers of occupational medicine throughout the whole territory of Poland, have been coordinated by the Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine in Lodz (NIOM).