IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v14y2017i3p337-d93803.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines in Ghana

Author

Listed:
  • Esther Ayaaba

    (Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, China)

  • Yan Li

    (Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, China)

  • Jiali Yuan

    (Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, China)

  • Chunhui Ni

    (Department of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210000, China)

Abstract

Objective : This study investigated respiratory disorders among gold miners in Ghana, a sub-Saharan African country. Material and Methods : A cross-sectional exploratory design that employed quantitative methods was conducted among 1001 male workers from the Obuasi and Tarkwa mines from December 2015 to April 2016. A total of 1001 workers, consisting of 505 and 496 underground and surface miners, respectively, were involved. The cross-sectional descriptive design was used because data was collected from participants of different experiences by selected participants at a time. Results: The study found significant association between age, educational background, marital status and drinking alcohol on respiratory disorders. The prevalence of asthma, pneumonia, bronchitis and emphysema were respectively 47.55%, 14.29%, 9.69% and 5.10%. Coughing was the most cited respiratory symptom (35.4%). Conclusions : The study documents important evidence on the level of respiratory disorders among miners in Ghana. Instituting appropriate health education interventions and improving the working environment is critical to improving the overall health and preventing respiratory disorders among miners.

Suggested Citation

  • Esther Ayaaba & Yan Li & Jiali Yuan & Chunhui Ni, 2017. "Occupational Respiratory Diseases of Miners from Two Gold Mines in Ghana," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(3), pages 1-14, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:14:y:2017:i:3:p:337-:d:93803
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/3/337/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/14/3/337/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Maureen Vowles & Ruth Kerry & Ben Ingram & Linda Mason, 2020. "Investigation of the Environmental and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Counties with a High Asthma Burden to Focus Asthma Action in Utah," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(14), pages 1-31, July.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:14:y:2017:i:3:p:337-:d:93803. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.