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标题：Invited commentary: Mining: South Africa’s legacy and burden in the context of occupational respiratory diseases
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作者：Rajen N. Naidoo
期刊名称：Global Health Action
印刷版ISSN：1654-9716
电子版ISSN：1654-9880
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：0
DOI：10.3402/gha.v6i0.20512
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis
摘要：Mining has played a central role in the development of South Africa - from the importation of European labour through to the migrant labour system that characterised apartheid, our mineral resources have molded our political, social, and economic paradigms over the last 140 years. The current turmoil on the mines emphasises this legacy and its centrality in our history. The mining industry not only shaped the early development of legislation to protect the health of workers in the 1900s, but it also allowed South African researchers to produce groundbreaking research in mining-related respiratory diseases throughout the last century. Gill Nelson’s work is located within this context and provides new directions for mining-related occupational respiratory diseases.(Published: 21 February 2013)Citation: Glob Health Action 2013, 6: 20512 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v6i0.20512