{"id":4051,"date":"2017-09-20T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T06:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/central.bcwebinc.com\/~rightcan\/?p=4051"},"modified":"2017-09-20T02:54:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T06:54:28","slug":"canadian-study-puts-annual-cost-of-asbestos-disease-at-2-35-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/?p=4051","title":{"rendered":"Study puts annual cost to Canada of asbestos disease at $2.35 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca<\/p>\n<p>A study by the Institute for Work &amp; Health shows that the annual cost to Canada for asbestos-related diseases is much higher than previously estimated. The research, carried out by\u00a0health economist, Emile Tompa, and a team of scientists, included workers and family members who were exposed to asbestos fibres carried home on a worker&#8217;s clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The original study, <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/oem.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2017\/07\/28\/oemed-2016-104173\">The economic burden of lung cancer and mesothelioma due to occupational and para-occupational asbestos exposure<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, published in July 2017 in the\u00a0Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, estimated the costs to Canada of asbestos exposure at $1.9 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures\u00a0include the value of activities in the home, thus giving a more complete assessment of the costs.<\/p>\n<p>See:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cos-mag.com\/occupational-hygiene\/34598-costs-related-to-asbestos-exposure-much-higher-than-original-estimates-iwh\/\">Costs related to asbestos exposure much higher than original estimates: IWH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca A study by the Institute for Work &amp; Health shows that the annual cost to Canada for asbestos-related diseases is much higher than previously estimated. The research, carried out by\u00a0health economist, Emile Tompa, and a team of scientists, included workers and family members who were exposed to asbestos fibres carried home on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[329,330],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asbestos","tag-asbestos-related-diseases","tag-costs-of-asbestos-diseases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4055,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightoncanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}