The book “Modern Occupational Diseases Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management and Prevention” is intended to serve as a useful guide for all those who are interested in occupational diseases. These include occupational medicine specialists, general practitioners, medical students, graduate students in public health, occupational health nurses, or colleagues and professionals in occupational health and safety — in other words, for all who have committed themselves to do the best practice for the occupational health of working people. The application of this book is not limited to the medical profession. It is equally needed by those responsible for control and prevention of occupational diseases, including managers at companies and government agencies responsible for the working environment of the industrialized country.
The book “Modern Occupational Diseases Diagnosis, Epidemiology, Management and Prevention” was assembled by a group of renowned scholars with special expertise in occupational diseases, addressing important occupational diseases including asbestosis, silicosis, work-related asthma, occupational cancer, and other diseases such as tuberculosis and COVID-19. This book was organized into 14 chapters. All chapters have been fully updated and enhanced to provide well-organized, practical, and relevant information.
Each chapter highlights the latest research findings, the developed diagnostic methods, etiology, and the most recent developments in the management and prevention of occupational disease and injuries. Chapter 1 addresses the importance of occupational diseases in the 21st century. Chapter 2 discusses general methods for epidemiology and use of epidemiology in occupational diseases. Chapters 3-8 cover preventable occupational diseases including asbestosis, silicosis, coal worker’s pneumoconiosis, work-related asthma, and acute respiratory infection. Chapters 9 and 10 cover occupational cancers. Chapter 11 discusses the importance of causation of occupational diseases and the role of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and evaluation of silica dust as a known human carcinogen. Chapter 12 discusses health effects of arsenic. Chapter 13 discusses fatal injuries related to falls from elevated work sites and prevention strategy for safety in the construction industry. Chapter 14 reviews the etiology and risk factors, risk assessment, prevention, and surveillance of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Case studies have been incorporated in these chapters to expand on the relevant issues. This book is therefore a detailed, comprehensive, and well reference text.
This textbook will shed light on the current state of understanding of occupational disease. It will look toward the future when reduce exposures and enforcement of rigorous policies will eliminate the burden of occupational diseases in the workplace throughout the world.
About the editor:
Dr. Ki Moon Bang is currently teaching as professor of epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University in the United States. Prior to joining the Rollins School of Public Health, he taught occupational diseases and surveillance to the medical students and MPH students at the West Virgina University School of Medicine and the medical students at the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC. He also worked at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Health, where he served as chief of respiratory disease surveillance section and developed various national respiratory disease surveillance programs. With more than 120 scientific publications in the journals and 17 textbooks, Dr. Bang is nationally and globally recognized eminent epidemiologist and his research areas focuses on occupational diseases such as asbestosis, silicosis, malignant mesothelioma, occupational cancer, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, and COVID-19 pandemic in the world.
Dr. Bang have been presented over 70 topics on public health areas including occupational diseases such as asthma, malignant mesothelioma, tuberculosis, asbestosis, etc., and other diseases such as tuberculosis, cancer at the national Conferences (American Public Health Association Annual Conference, etc.) and international conferences. He served as a Chair of various sessions several times at the national conferences.
Dr. Bang has led multiple NIH-funded projects on cancer control in black community in the United States. He has served as a panel reviewer for several state and federal grant proposals.
Dr. Bang completed a Master of Public Health from the Seoul National University, School of Public Health in Korea and earned a PhD in preventive medicine and epidemiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch in the United States.
Keywords:
Occupational Health, Occupational Cancer, COVID-19, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Occupational Epidemiology, Crystalline Silica Dust, Asbestosis, Arsenic, Silicosis, Construction, Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis, Fatalities, Occupational Chronic Obstructive Disease, Work-related Musculoskeletal Disease, Work-related Asthma, Epidemiology, Acute Respiratory Infection, Occupational Safety and Health, Malignant Mesothelioma, Prevention
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