Occupational Exposure and Occupational Asthma: Difference in Practices in Developed Countries v/s Developing Countries

摘要

Occupational asthma (OA) has emerged as the commonest occupational lung disease in developed countries and the second commonest in developing countries. Nearly 9-15% of the global adult asthma is occupation associated. However, this is an underestimation as large proportion of occupational asthma remains unidentified in developing world. The economic burden of OA is enormous but the disease is potentially preventable. The western models of documenting and legislation implementation models have provided a scaffold to curb various occupation morbidities of the world.