Mamtani Ravinder, Stern Penny, Dawood Ismail, Cheema Sohaila
Global and Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, P.O. Box 24144, Doha, Qatar.
J Toxicol. 2011;2011:319136. doi: 10.1155/2011/319136. Epub 2011 Oct 5.
Metals are an important and essential part of our daily lives. Their ubiquitous presence and use has not been without significant consequences. Both industrial and nonindustrial exposures to metals are characterized by a variety of acute and chronic ailments. Underreporting of illnesses related to occupational and environmental exposures to chemicals including metals is of concern and presents a serious challenge. Many primary care workers rarely consider occupational and environmental exposures to chemicals in their clinical evaluation. Their knowledge and training in the evaluation of health problems related to such exposures is inadequate. This paper presents documented research findings from various studies that have examined the relationship between metal exposures and their adverse health effects both in developing and developed countries. Further, it provides some guidance on essential elements of a basic occupational and environmental evaluation to health care workers in primary care situations.
金属是我们日常生活中重要且必不可少的一部分。它们无处不在的存在和使用并非没有重大影响。工业和非工业环境下接触金属都具有各种急性和慢性疾病的特征。与职业和环境接触包括金属在内的化学物质相关疾病的报告不足令人担忧，并构成了严峻挑战。许多初级保健工作者在临床评估中很少考虑职业和环境接触化学物质的情况。他们在评估与此类接触相关的健康问题方面的知识和培训不足。本文介绍了来自不同研究的有记录的研究结果，这些研究考察了发展中国家和发达国家中金属接触与其不良健康影响之间的关系。此外，它还为初级保健环境中的医护人员提供了基本职业和环境评估的基本要素方面的一些指导。
