Lung Cancer Risk Among Workers in Poultry Slaughtering and Processing Plants: A Pilot Study

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dc.contributor.advisorRamphal-Naley, Lilly
dc.contributor.committeeMemberCardarelli, Kathryn
dc.contributor.committeeMemberQualls-Hampton, Raquel
dc.creatorPreacely, Nykiconia D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-22T20:05:34Z
dc.date.available2019-08-22T20:05:34Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-01
dc.date.submitted2013-09-23T13:42:07-07:00
dc.description.abstractPreacely, Nykiconia D., Lung Cancer Risk Among Workers in Poultry Slaughtering and Processing Plants: A Pilot Study. Doctor of Public Health (Epidemiology), May 2008, 104 pp., 21 tables, 4 figures, bibliography, 50 titles. Poultry workers are at a great risk of exposure to potentially harmful transmissible agents which can cause cancer in poultry; yet there are few epidemiological studies that examine the association of occupation and illnesses experienced by these workers. Workers in poultry slaughtering and processing plants are well suited to investigate the effects of exposure to poultry oncogenic agents because they have one of the highest human exposure to carcinogenic chemicals formed during the packaging and preparation of poultry. The preparations of poultry via smoking, and frying are additional exposures that release carcinogens which may be involved in lung cancer risk among poultry workers. Union records from several unions belonging to the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union for the years 1949-1989 were used to identify a cohort of workers once employed in poultry slaughtering and processing plants. The current research investigated whether certain occupational exposures were associated with lung cancer mortality among these workers. The research employed a case cohort design that provided individual level occupational and lifestyle data for workers who died with lung cancer between 1990 and 2003 compared to a sub-cohort of individuals randomly sampled from the entire cohort. It is anticipated that by identifying potentially harmful exposures in this industry, future research may focus on developing methods to alleviate them among poultry workers. The results of this study will provide public health professionals and the poultry industry with new information on the occupational exposures not previously explored in relation to lung cancer mortality among poultry slaughtering/processing plant workers.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12503/27769
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectCommunity Health and Preventive Medicine
dc.subjectDiseases
dc.subjectDisorders of Environmental Origin
dc.subjectEnvironmental Health
dc.subjectEpidemiology
dc.subjectLife Sciences
dc.subjectMedical Pathology
dc.subjectMedical Toxicology
dc.subjectMedicine and Health Sciences
dc.subjectOccupational Health and Industrial Hygiene
dc.subjectOncology
dc.subjectPublic Health
dc.subjectPublic Health Education and Promotion
dc.subjectRespiratory Tract Diseases
dc.subjectToxicology
dc.subjectLung cancer
dc.subjectrisk
dc.subjectpoultry
dc.subjectslaughtering and processing plants
dc.subjectpoultry workers
dc.subjectoccupational illness
dc.subjectoncogenic agents
dc.subjectcarcinogenic chemicals
dc.subjectmortality
dc.titleLung Cancer Risk Among Workers in Poultry Slaughtering and Processing Plants: A Pilot Study
dc.typeDissertation
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentSchool of Public Health
thesis.degree.disciplineEpidemiology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Public Health

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