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Compensation for occupational disease with multiple causes: the case of coal miners' respiratory diseases.

Author(s) -

James L. Weeks,

Gregory R. Wagner

Publication year - 1986

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.76.1.58

Subject(s) - pneumoconiosis , occupational disease , workers' compensation , compensation (psychology) , occupational lung disease , medicine , disease , environmental health , occupational medicine , occupational exposure , silicosis , family medicine , psychology , pathology , social psychology

Many diseases associated with occupational exposures are clinically indistinguishable from diseases with non-occupational causes. Given this, how are fair decisions made about eligibility for compensation? This problem is discussed in relation to the federal black lung program. Conflicting definitions of terms--coal workers' pneumoconiosis as defined by the medical profession, pneumoconiosis as defined by the United States Congress, and the popular term, black lung--are important considerations in this discussion. Each is embedded in different logical interpretations of the causes of occupational disease and of disability. Alternative views are presented and critically discussed.

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