Predictors of silicosis and variation in prevalence across mines among employed gold miners in South Africa

• Main Authors: Dave Knight (Author), Rodney Ehrlich (Author), Annibale Cois (Author), Katherine Fielding (Author), Alison D. Grant (Author), Gavin Churchyard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The stated intention to eliminate silicosis from the South African goldmining industry as well as current programmes to find and compensate ex-miners with silicosis require an understanding of variation in silicosis prevalence across the industry. We aimed to identify the predict...