Tackling injustices of occupational lung disease acquired in South African mines: recent developments and ongoing challenges

• Main Authors: Barry Kistnasamy (Author), Annalee Yassi (Author), Jessica Yu (Author), Samuel J. Spiegel (Author), Andre Fourie (Author), Stephen Barker (Author), Jerry M. Spiegel (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: BMC, 2018-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background South Africa's mineral resources have produced, and continue to produce, enormous economic wealth; yet decades of colonialism, apartheid, capital flight, and challenges in the neoliberal post-apartheid era have resulted in high rates of occupational lung disease and low rate...