TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Industrial (Occupational) Hygiene A1 - Townsend, Nina A2 - LaDou, Joseph A2 - Harrison, Robert J. PY - 2021 T2 - CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 6e AB - It is unknown how many illnesses are caused or aggravated by workplace hazards across the globe, but even an outdated estimate from the World Health Organization suggests that between about 50 and 150 million new cases of occupational disease occur annually, and the International Labour Organization estimates that 2 million die from these illnesses each year. In 2015, in the United States, nearly 150,000 workplace illnesses were reported in private industry alone. This is likely an undercount as occupational illness is rarely correctly identified as work-related. Figure 40–1 shows the breakdown of these illnesses by type. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1180881838 ER -