EDITORIAL
Work-related injuries among immigrants: a growing global health disparity
Correspondence to:
Marc Schenker, Department of Public Health Sciences, MS1-C, One Shields Avenue, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA; mbschenker@ucdavis.edu
Accepted 15 May 2008
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Increased occupational hazards among immigrant workers were described 100 years ago in Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, which exposed the scandalous living and working conditions of immigrants in the Chicago stockyards. At the same time Dr Alice Hamilton was establishing the field of occupational health in the USA by her studies of immigrant workers exposed to the hazards of lead, rubber, viscous rayon and other toxins.1 Unfortunately, increased occupational hazards to immigrant workers remain a reality today; it is just the origin of the workers and some of the jobs that have changed. The dramatic increase in global migration over the past decade has made this issue even more critical, but the debate on immigration has become mired in politics, and little has been done to understand the situation or decrease the inequitable burden of morbidity and mortality among immigrant workers.
How big is global migration? In 2005 there
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