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Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design

BACKGROUND: In 1992, a cargo aircraft crashed into apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 victims and destroying 266 apartments. In the aftermath there were speculations about the cause of the crash, potential exposures to hazardous materials due to the disaster and the health consequences. St...

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Autores principales: Slottje, Pauline, Huizink, Anja C, Twisk, Jos WR, Witteveen, Anke B, van der Ploeg, Henk M, Bramsen, Inge, Smidt, Nynke, Bijlsma, Joost A, Bouter, Lex M, van Mechelen, Willem, Smid, Tjabe
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15921536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-54
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author Slottje, Pauline
Huizink, Anja C
Twisk, Jos WR
Witteveen, Anke B
van der Ploeg, Henk M
Bramsen, Inge
Smidt, Nynke
Bijlsma, Joost A
Bouter, Lex M
van Mechelen, Willem
Smid, Tjabe
author_facet Slottje, Pauline
Huizink, Anja C
Twisk, Jos WR
Witteveen, Anke B
van der Ploeg, Henk M
Bramsen, Inge
Smidt, Nynke
Bijlsma, Joost A
Bouter, Lex M
van Mechelen, Willem
Smid, Tjabe
author_sort Slottje, Pauline
collection PubMed
description BACKGROUND: In 1992, a cargo aircraft crashed into apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 victims and destroying 266 apartments. In the aftermath there were speculations about the cause of the crash, potential exposures to hazardous materials due to the disaster and the health consequences. Starting in 2000, the Epidemiological Study Air Disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA) aimed to assess the long-term health effects of occupational exposure to this disaster on professional assistance workers. METHODS/DESIGN: Epidemiological study among all the exposed professional fire-fighters and police officers who performed disaster-related task(s), and hangar workers who sorted the wreckage of the aircraft, as well as reference groups of their non-exposed colleagues who did not perform any disaster-related tasks. The study took place, on average, 8.5 years after the disaster. Questionnaires were used to assess details on occupational exposure to the disaster. Health measures comprised laboratory assessments in urine, blood and saliva, as well as self-reported current health measures, including health-related quality of life, and various physical and psychological symptoms. DISCUSSION: In this paper we describe and discuss the design of the ESADA. The ESADA will provide additional scientific knowledge on the long-term health effects of technological disasters on professional workers.
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spelling pubmed-11731162005-07-07 Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design Slottje, Pauline Huizink, Anja C Twisk, Jos WR Witteveen, Anke B van der Ploeg, Henk M Bramsen, Inge Smidt, Nynke Bijlsma, Joost A Bouter, Lex M van Mechelen, Willem Smid, Tjabe BMC Public Health Study Protocol BACKGROUND: In 1992, a cargo aircraft crashed into apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 victims and destroying 266 apartments. In the aftermath there were speculations about the cause of the crash, potential exposures to hazardous materials due to the disaster and the health consequences. Starting in 2000, the Epidemiological Study Air Disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA) aimed to assess the long-term health effects of occupational exposure to this disaster on professional assistance workers. METHODS/DESIGN: Epidemiological study among all the exposed professional fire-fighters and police officers who performed disaster-related task(s), and hangar workers who sorted the wreckage of the aircraft, as well as reference groups of their non-exposed colleagues who did not perform any disaster-related tasks. The study took place, on average, 8.5 years after the disaster. Questionnaires were used to assess details on occupational exposure to the disaster. Health measures comprised laboratory assessments in urine, blood and saliva, as well as self-reported current health measures, including health-related quality of life, and various physical and psychological symptoms. DISCUSSION: In this paper we describe and discuss the design of the ESADA. The ESADA will provide additional scientific knowledge on the long-term health effects of technological disasters on professional workers. BioMed Central 2005-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC1173116/ /pubmed/15921536 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-54 Text en Copyright © 2005 Slottje et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Slottje, Pauline
Huizink, Anja C
Twisk, Jos WR
Witteveen, Anke B
van der Ploeg, Henk M
Bramsen, Inge
Smidt, Nynke
Bijlsma, Joost A
Bouter, Lex M
van Mechelen, Willem
Smid, Tjabe
Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title_full Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title_fullStr Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title_full_unstemmed Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title_short Epidemiological study air disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA): study design
title_sort epidemiological study air disaster in amsterdam (esada): study design
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173116/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15921536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-5-54
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