Precarious transition: a mortality study of South African ex-miners.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite their burden of a triple epidemic of silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV infection, little is known about the mortality experience of miners from the South African mining industry once they leave employment. Such information is important because of the size and dispersion of this population across a number of countries and the progressive nature of these diseases.

Methods

This study included 306,297 South African miners who left the industry during 2001-2013. The study aimed to calculate crude and standardised mortality rates, identify secular trends in mortality and model demographic and occupational risk factors for mortality.

Results

Crude mortality rates peaked in the first year after exit (32.8/1000 person-years), decreasing with each year from exi

SUBMITTER: Bloch K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6042385 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature