The Burden of Occupational Disease and Injury in New Zealand: Technical Report
Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Authors & Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Executive Summary
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Methods
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Identifying relevant literature
- Reviewing literature
- Summarising and synthesising the literature
- Exposure measures
- 2.3 Included conditions
- 2.4 Included exposures
- 2.5 Age
- 2.6 Gender
- 2.7 Ethnicity
- 2.8 Estimates of absolute burden
- 2.9 Social and economic costs
- 2.10 Structure of the results section
- 3. Review of Specific Occupational Diseases and Injury
- 3.1 Infectious diseases
- Tuberculosis
- Pneumococcal disease
- Brucellosis
- Leptospirosis
- Legionellosis
- Viral hepatitis
- HIV/AIDS
- Other infections
- 3.2 Malignancy
- Oral cavity cancer
- Oesophageal cancer
- Stomach cancer
- Colon cancer
- Rectal cancer
- Liver cancer
- Gall bladder cancer
- Pancreatic cancer
- Sino-nasal carcinoma
- Larynx
- Lung and bronchus
- Bone
- Skin (melanoma)
- Skin (non-melanoma)
- Mesothelioma
- Female breast cancer
- Cervical cancer
- Uterine cancer
- Ovarian cancer
- Prostate cancer
- Testicular cancer
- Renal cancer
- Bladder cancer
- Brain cancer
- Lymphoma and myeloma
- Leukaemia
- Soft tissue sarcoma
- All cancers
- 3.3 Mental or neuropsychiatric disorders
- Occupational stress-related conditions
- 3.4 Diseases of the nervous system
- Parkinson’s disease
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Chronic solvent-induced toxic encephalopathy
- Dementia
- 3.5 Vascular diseases
- Ischaemic heart disease
- 3.6 Respiratory diseases (non-malignant)
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Pneumoconioses
- Other respiratory disorders
- 3.7 Hepatic disease
- 3.8 Diseases of the genitourinary system
- Chronic renal failure
- 3.9 Non-cancerous skin conditions
- 3.10 Musculoskeletal conditions
- Upper limb disorders
- Low back pain
- Occupational osteoarthritis
- Scleroderma
- 3.11 Noise-induced hearing loss
- 3.12 Vibration disorders
- 3.13 Chemical poisoning/toxicity
- 3.14 Reproductive risks
- 3.15 Multiple chemical sensitivity
- 3.16 Fatal injury
- Unintentional fatal injury
- Intentional fatal injury – homicide
- Intentional fatal injury – suicide
- 3.17 Non-fatal injury
- Unintentional non-fatal injury
- Intentional non-fatal injury – non-fatal assault
- Mild traumatic brain injury/post-concussion syndrome
- 3.1 Infectious diseases
- 4. Other Aspects of Workplace Hazards
- 4.1 Shift work
- 4.2 Environmental tobacco smoke
- 4.3 Job strain and job control
- 4.4 Noise
- 4.5 Occupational disease/injury in Maori
- 4.6 The changing nature of work
- 4.7 Latency
- 4.8 Costs
- 5. Estimates of Burden
- 6. Lessons for Surveillance and Research
- 6.1 Overview of type and year of publication of articles
- 6.2 Lack of information on exposures
- 6.3 Lack of information on gender
- 6.4 Lack of information on ethnicity
- 6.5 Lack of information on bystanders
- 6.6 Difficulty accessing available information on fatal work-related injury
- 6.7 Surveillance of exposures versus outcomes
- 6.8 Cost information
- 7. Lessons for Prevention
- 7.1 Evaluation
- 7.2 Surveillance information
- 7.3 Early intervention
- 8. Summary and Conclusions
- 9. Index to Exposures and Occupations
- 10. References
