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Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention
OBJECTIVE: The Japanese government established the Pneumoconiosis Law in 1960 to protect health and promote the welfare of workers engaged in dust-exposed works. This article describes Japanese practice in workplace health management as regulated by the Pneumoconiosis Law to reduce pneumoconiosis in...
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Japan Society for Occupational Health
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980247 |
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author | JP, Naw Awn Imanaka, Momo Suganuma, Narufumi |
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description | OBJECTIVE: The Japanese government established the Pneumoconiosis Law in 1960 to protect health and promote the welfare of workers engaged in dust-exposed works. This article describes Japanese practice in workplace health management as regulated by the Pneumoconiosis Law to reduce pneumoconiosis in Japan. METHODS: We collected information addressing pneumoconiosis and the health care of dust-exposed workers. We included all types of scientific papers found through a PubMed search as well as official reports, guidelines, and relevant laws published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan and other academic institutions. RESULTS: In the past, pneumoconiosis has been a major cause of mortality and morbidity for Japanese workers engaged in dust-exposed work. The Pneumoconiosis Law introduced a system of pneumoconiosis health examination and health supervision to protect workers' health. According to the periodic pneumoconiosis health examination reports in Japan, the prevalence of pneumoconiosis fell from the highest reported figure of 17.4% in 1982, where 265,720 examinations were conducted, to 1% in 2013 in which 243,740 workers were examined. The number of new cases of pneumoconiosis dropped from 6,842 cases in 1980 to 227 cases in 2013. One hundred and seventy two workers were diagnosed as having pneumoconiosis complications in 1980; however, the number fell to five in 2013. CONCLUSION: After reaching its peak in the 1980s, pneumoconiosis and its complications fell each year. The achievement of Japanese pneumoconiosis prevention can be credited to a comprehensive provision for worker health, regulated by a thorough legal framework. |
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spelling | pubmed-54785172017-06-29 Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention JP, Naw Awn Imanaka, Momo Suganuma, Narufumi J Occup Health Review OBJECTIVE: The Japanese government established the Pneumoconiosis Law in 1960 to protect health and promote the welfare of workers engaged in dust-exposed works. This article describes Japanese practice in workplace health management as regulated by the Pneumoconiosis Law to reduce pneumoconiosis in Japan. METHODS: We collected information addressing pneumoconiosis and the health care of dust-exposed workers. We included all types of scientific papers found through a PubMed search as well as official reports, guidelines, and relevant laws published by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan and other academic institutions. RESULTS: In the past, pneumoconiosis has been a major cause of mortality and morbidity for Japanese workers engaged in dust-exposed work. The Pneumoconiosis Law introduced a system of pneumoconiosis health examination and health supervision to protect workers' health. According to the periodic pneumoconiosis health examination reports in Japan, the prevalence of pneumoconiosis fell from the highest reported figure of 17.4% in 1982, where 265,720 examinations were conducted, to 1% in 2013 in which 243,740 workers were examined. The number of new cases of pneumoconiosis dropped from 6,842 cases in 1980 to 227 cases in 2013. One hundred and seventy two workers were diagnosed as having pneumoconiosis complications in 1980; however, the number fell to five in 2013. CONCLUSION: After reaching its peak in the 1980s, pneumoconiosis and its complications fell each year. The achievement of Japanese pneumoconiosis prevention can be credited to a comprehensive provision for worker health, regulated by a thorough legal framework. Japan Society for Occupational Health 2016-12-15 2017-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5478517/ /pubmed/27980247 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Journal of Occupational Health is an Open Access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review JP, Naw Awn Imanaka, Momo Suganuma, Narufumi Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title | Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title_full | Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title_fullStr | Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title_full_unstemmed | Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title_short | Japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
title_sort | japanese workplace health management in pneumoconiosis prevention |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5478517/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980247 |
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