Steckling, Nadine; Bose-O'Reilly, Stephan; Pinheiro, Paulo; Plass, Dietrich; Shoko, Dennis; Drasch, Gustav; Bernaudat, Ludovic; Siebert, Uwe; Hornberg, Claudia: The burden of chronic mercury intoxication in artisanal small-scale gold mining in Zimbabwe: data availability and preliminary estimates. In: Environmental Health. Jg.13 H. 1. 2014
Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Case definition
- Case identification and determination of the sample prevalence
- Extrapolating the disease prevalence to all of Zimbabwe
- Data needed for estimating disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)
- Incident cases (a)
- Disability weight (b)
- Duration of disease (c)
- Number of deaths (d)
- Completing the DisMod II input: Remission of disease
- Basic data for DisMod II
- Life expectancy (e), age weights (f), and discount rate (g)
- Scenario analyses
- Results
- Analysis of primary data
- Human biomonitoring concentrations and categorizing in exposure limit values
- Health effects of project sample
- Sample prevalence of chronic mercury intoxication
- Extrapolating the sample prevalence to all of Zimbabwe
- Modeled data
- DALY quantification
- Scenario analysis
- Discussion
- Subgroup results and excluded groups at risk
- Number and distribution of individuals at risk
- Health data
- Analyses of competing scenarios
- Comparing with Zimbabwe’s leading causes of disease burden
- Usefulness of DALY estimates
- Conclusions
- Additional files
- Abbreviations
- Competing interests
- Authors’ contributions
- Acknowledgements
- Author details
- References