Development of an Asthma-Specific Job Exposure Matrix for Use in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Existing asthma-specific job-exposure matrices (JEMs) do not necessarily reflect current working conditions in the USA and do not directly function with occupational coding systems commonly used in the USA. We initiated a project to modify an existing JEM to address these limitations, and to apply the new JEM to the entire US employed population to estimate quantitatively the extent of probable work-related asthma exposures nationwide.

Methods

We started with an asthma-specific JEM that was developed for northern Europe (the N-JEM) and modified it to function with the 2010 US Standard Occupational Classification (SOC-2010) codes and to reflect working conditions in the USA during the post-2000 period. This involved cross walking from the 1988 International Stand

SUBMITTER: Henneberger PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9990745 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature