Occupational illness in Oklahoma.

J Okla State Med Assoc

Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73190.

Published: January 1993

This study estimates the extent of work-related chronic disease fatalities in Oklahoma. Occupational cancer, pneumoconiosis, and chronic respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, and neurological diseases are addressed specifically. Also, the costs of chronic occupational illness are estimated. Because many cases of work-related disease find their way to the primary care physician, an individual who often has little formal training in the recognition and diagnosis of occupational or environmental illness, the education of primary care physicians and medical students in occupational disease recognition and prevention is encouraged.

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