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Portuguese health care costs related to asbestos exposure: a cost-of-illness study on mesothelioma hospital admission in the period 2000-2015

Bibliographic Details
Summary:	Background: Portugal has a temperate climate and low industrialization levels existing in the period after World War II, when asbestos materials were used worldwide, has contributed to the generalized belief of low usage of those materials. - Such supposition lacks confirmation; - There is no specific registry of asbestos-related diseases, workers asbestos exposure or asbestos industrial use; - Mesotheliomas are rare neoplasms strongly related to asbestos exposure so they can be used to understand the possible dimension of past exposure to asbestos; - It was estimated that professional diseases under notification was up to 90% for asbestos-related diseases, mainly mesotheliomas.
Main Authors:	Neto, Mariana
Other Authors:	Almeida, Elisabete
Subject:	Public Health Occupational Medicine Health Care Asbesto Mesotheliomas Cost-of-illness Portugal Cuidados de Saúde Amianto Mesotelioma
Year:	2016
Country:	Portugal
Document type:	conference output
Access type:	open access
Associated institution:	Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge
Language:	English
Origin:	Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

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Summary:	Background: Portugal has a temperate climate and low industrialization levels existing in the period after World War II, when asbestos materials were used worldwide, has contributed to the generalized belief of low usage of those materials. - Such supposition lacks confirmation; - There is no specific registry of asbestos-related diseases, workers asbestos exposure or asbestos industrial use; - Mesotheliomas are rare neoplasms strongly related to asbestos exposure so they can be used to understand the possible dimension of past exposure to asbestos; - It was estimated that professional diseases under notification was up to 90% for asbestos-related diseases, mainly mesotheliomas.