MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2002 Sep 11;51 Spec No:8-10.
In January 2002, CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health received requests for Health Hazard Evaluations from labor unions representing workers employed in buildings in the vicinity of the World Trade Center (WTC). Workers reported persistent physical and mental health symptoms that they associated with exposures from the WTC collapse and ensuing fires. To address these concerns, CDC conducted surveys of workers at four workplaces in New York City (NYC), a high school (high school A) and college (college A) near the WTC site, and a high school (comparison high school B) and college (comparison college B) > or = 5 miles from the WTC site to determine rates of physical and mental health symptoms. This report summarizes the preliminary results of the employee surveys, which indicated that workers employed near the WTC site had significantly higher rates of physical and mental health symptoms than workers employed > or = 5 miles from the site. Intervention programs should be tailored to address the needs of these workers, and the effectiveness of these programs should be evaluated. Further assessment is warranted to describe the nature and extent of illness in specific working groups and individual medical follow-up in those with persistent symptoms.
2002年1月，美国疾病控制与预防中心（CDC）的国家职业安全与健康研究所收到了代表世贸中心（WTC）附近建筑物中受雇工人的工会提出的健康危害评估请求。工人们报告了持续的身心健康症状，他们认为这些症状与世贸中心倒塌及随后的火灾所导致的接触有关。为解决这些担忧，CDC对纽约市（NYC）四个工作场所的工人进行了调查，这四个场所分别是世贸中心遗址附近的一所高中（高中A）和一所大学（大学A），以及距离世贸中心遗址大于或等于5英里的一所高中（对照高中B）和一所大学（对照大学B），以确定身心健康症状的发生率。本报告总结了员工调查的初步结果，结果表明，在世贸中心遗址附近工作的工人出现身心健康症状的比率明显高于在距离遗址大于或等于5英里处工作的工人。应制定干预计划以满足这些工人的需求，并应对这些计划的有效性进行评估。有必要进行进一步评估，以描述特定工作群体中疾病的性质和程度，以及对有持续症状者进行个体医疗随访。
