NIOSH Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program

NIOSH Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program The NIOSH Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) studies lung disease in coal miners. However since 1999, the prevalence of CWP among U.S.

The prevalence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP), sometimes referred to as "Black Lung Disease," among long-term underground miners that participated in chest x-ray screening decreased from the 1970s to the 1990s. coal miners is increasing in mines of all sizes, and the more serious advanced disease of Progressive Massive Fibrosis (PMF) is much more prevalent among miners from underground mine

s with fewer than 50 workers. To more adequately investigate the trends of CWP throughout the United States, NIOSH, in collaboration with MSHA, has developed, staffed, and implemented the ECWHSP. Surveys are being completed that include work histories, spirometry testing, and radiographic examinations that are gathered in a specially designed mobile examination unit by trained personnel. Reports of individual health findings are sent to each participant.

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