HEALTH HAZARDS AMONG COAL MINERS:AN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDY IN CHERAT COAL MINES NOWSHERA KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA PHD THESIS
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2009
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Department of Environmental Sciences
Abstract
Coal and coal mining industry has great significance to the development of any country; but the
unsustainable and unplanned coal mining causes various environmental and health hazards. Thus
despite being the most vibrant economic source, the ill planned practices during mining and the
absence of health and safety regulations has become the potential source of environmental and
occupational health hazards around the Globe specifically in Asian countries and Pakistan is
among one of them. In this environmental epidemiological study, real-life patterns of disease and
exposures were analyze to examine the associations between occupational environment coal dust
exposure determinants and health outcomes of disease at a population level; so this research
work has been carried out to identify and highlight the adverse environmental and occupational
health impacts among coal miners occur as a result of potential exposure to respirable hazardous
dust released during coal mining located in District Nowshera, Cherat including Shakot, Jaba
Tar, Jaba Khushk and Dak Ismail Khel, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A detailed study was
conducted to assess the geo chemical composition of coal raw samples; air quality within the
occupational and para-occupational environment and to identify the prevalence of various health
hazards particularly pneumoconiosis and silicosis among coal miners working in Cherat coal
mines