The role of mining in the spread of TB in Africa: policy implications

Lurie, Mark N.; Stuckler, David

doi:10.1586/eri.10.120

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“…Infectious diseases are indeed an economic issue, as described by Hall (1992: 199): “economic factors may increasingly influence healthcare decisions by raising issues of distribution and access in a time of limited resources.” For example, the trade routes in the 1300s were a mechanism of transmission of the Black Death in Europe (Yue, Lee, & Wu, 2017). From the late 1800s until today, mine workers in South Africa are at a higher risk of acquiring tuberculosis (TB) and then transmitting TB to others, in part due to the practices of mining companies (Lurie & Stuckler, 2014). Research suggests that biological and economic risks are intertwined (Peckham, 2013), as exemplified by the H5N1 outbreak in 1997.…”

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Pandemics at Work: Convergence of Epidemiology and Ethics

Thornton

Martin

2021

Bus. Ethics Q.

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Like COVID-19, new infectious disease outbreaks emerge almost annually, and studies predict that this trend will continue due to a variety of factors, including an aging population, ease of travel, and globalization of the economy. In response to episodic public health crises, governments and organizations develop, implement, and enforce policies, procedures, protocols, and programs. The epidemiological triad is both a model of disease causation and fundamentally used to design and deploy such control measures. Here we adapt this model to the workplace setting and use the epidemiological triad to characterize the related ethical challenges in implementing the control measures employers face as a guide for a workplace intervention framework. Through this approach, our aim is to show how an integrated ethical framework, grounded in epidemiological principles, has important implications for how we categorize, understand, and resolve the difficult decisions that emerge in the workplace under pandemic conditions.

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Pandemics at Work: Convergence of Epidemiology and Ethics

Thornton

Martin

2021

Bus. Ethics Q.

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“…[13][14][15] There is an abundance of epidemiological literature on gold mining, gold miners, their oscillating migration in the southern African region, and its contribution to the spread of both TB and HIV. 7,[16][17][18][19][20] These studies, however, tend to investigate miners who have recently participated in or are currently participating in the migrant labor system. Unfortunately, little is known about the burden of TB and its ongoing effects among men who remain in the rural countryside long after working in the mine and who never reenter the migrant labor system.…”

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Those Who Don’t Return: Improving Efforts to Address Tuberculosis Among Former Miners in Southern Africa

Smith

Blom

2019

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Despite increasing awareness regarding the role of oscillating migration in the mining industry as a major driving force in the spread of tuberculosis (TB) throughout southern Africa, very little work has focused on the historical and contextual factors which may contribute to former migrant miners’ present-day risk of TB. Most research regarding migration-related and occupational influences on TB has been done on current miners still employed by the mining industry. Through both a historical and contemporary lens, this paper explores and elucidates the need to address the TB epidemic among former migrant mine workers and provides considerations to improve current interventions among this critical population.

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