Compensation for occupational disease with multiple causes: The case of coal miners' respiratory diseases

J.L. Weeks and G.R. Wagner

American Journal of Public Health, 1986, vol. 76, issue 1, 58-61

Abstract: Many diseases associated with occupational exposures are clinically indistinguishable from diseases with non-occupational causes. Given this, how are fair decisions made about eligibility for compensation? This problem is discussed in relation to the federal black lung program. Conflicting definitions of terms - coal workers' pneumoconiosis as defined by the medical profession, pneumoconiosis as defined by the United States Congress, and the popular term, black lung - are important considerations in this discussion. Each is embedded in different logical interpretations of the causes of occupational disease and of disability. Alternative views are presented and critically discussed.

Date: 1986
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