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Working conditions and tuberculosis mortality in England and Wales, 1890–1912: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data

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Title
Working conditions and tuberculosis mortality in England and Wales, 1890–1912: a retrospective analysis of routinely collected data
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BMC Infectious Diseases, May 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12879-016-1509-z
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Charlotte Jackson, Joanna H. Mostowy, Helen R. Stagg, Ibrahim Abubakar, Nick Andrews, Tom A. Yates

Abstract

Modelling studies suggest that workplaces may be important sites of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in high burden countries today. Contemporary data on tuberculosis by occupation from these settings are scarce. However, historical data on tuberculosis risk in different occupations are available and may provide insight into workplace transmission. We aimed to ascertain whether, in a high burden setting, individuals working in crowded indoor environments (exposed) had greater tuberculosis mortality than individuals employed elsewhere (unexposed). The Registrar General's Decennial Supplements from 1890-2, 1900-2 and 1910-2 contain data on mortality from tuberculosis by occupation for men in England and Wales. In these data, the association between occupational exposure to crowded indoor environments and tuberculosis mortality was assessed using an overdispersed Poisson regression model adjusting for socioeconomic position, age and decade. There were 23,962 deaths from tuberculosis during 14.8 million person-years of follow-up among men working in exposed occupations and 28,483 during 19.9 million person-years of follow-up among men working in unexposed occupations. We were unable to categorise a large number of occupations as exposed or unexposed. The adjusted rate ratio for death from tuberculosis was 1.34 (95 % confidence interval 1.26-1.43) comparing men working in exposed occupations to those in unexposed occupations. Tuberculosis mortality in England and Wales at the turn of the 20th century was associated with occupational exposure to crowded indoor environments. The association between working conditions and TB in contemporary high burden settings requires further study.

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Unknown 62 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 11 18%
Researcher 10 16%
Student > Bachelor 8 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 5%
Other 8 13%
Unknown 18 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 32%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 10%
Environmental Science 3 5%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Linguistics 2 3%
Other 9 15%
Unknown 20 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2023.
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#6,190,758
of 24,677,985 outputs
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#1,907
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#92,210
of 339,896 outputs
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#31
of 155 outputs
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