Health impact of pneumoconiosis in Mongolia: Estimation of losses in life expectancy and quality adjusted life expectancy

Abstract

The health inequality suffered by miners in Mongolia must be addressed through prevention, including exposure monitoring and control, early diagnosis and case management and rehabilitation of pneumoconiosis.

Survival Analysis of Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis (CWP) Patients in a State-Owned Mine in the East of China from 1963 to 2014

“…This is lower than 32.9 years in the investigation of life expectancy of CWP patients in high altitude localities by Shi Chunbo [18]. To estimate the life expectancy, quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE), and their losses, in patients with pneumoconiosis in Mongolia, a study including 432 pneumoconiosis patients diagnosed during 1986–2006 indicated that the life expectancy and expected years of life loss (EYLL) of a patient with pneumoconiosis were 18.1 and 9.5 years, respectively [19]. In addition, QALE and loss of QALE were 15.1 and 12.5 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), respectively, indicating a health gap of 45% [19].…”

The Effects of Diabetes, Hypertension, Asthma, Heart Disease, and Stroke on Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy

“…QALE had been commonly used to evaluate prognosis for a specific disease [14,15]. For example, Oyunbileg et al [14] estimated that the life expectancy for a cohort of 432 pneumoconiosis patients (average age 55.6 years) was 18.1 years compared with 27.6 years for those without the disease, a 9.5-year loss of life expectancy, and the QALE loss for pneumoconiosis was 12.5 years (15.1 years vs. 27.6 years). QALE was not commonly calculated to measure population health because of the lack of nationwide data including both HRQOL measures and end results (death) from diseases.…”

“…Several studies have calculated the loss in QALE due to a disease/condition by following a cohort of patients prospectively [14,15]. For example, Hung et al [15] followed 633 patients with prolonged mechanical ventilation from 1998 to 2007 to obtain their survival status.…”

Association between Polymorphisms of Interleukin-17A and Interleukin-17F Genes and Silicosis Susceptibility in Chinese Han People

“…Pneumoconiosis is still one of the most serious occupational disease over the world, especially in developing countries (Naidoo et al, 2005;Chen et al, 2012;Oyunbileg et al, 2011;Pingle et al, 2012). By the end of 2012, the total of pneumoconiosis patients is 727148 in china, which is 76.74% of the total number of occupational disease.…”