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Definition of occupational asthma
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Francis and her colleagues (Occup Environ Med 2007;64:361–5) have completed an interesting and useful piece of work in relation to a definition of and diagnostic resources required for occupational asthma. It is, in my view, however important to identify, in full, the context of such definitions if they are not to be used for unintended purposes or, perhaps, inappropriately. Is it possible to suggest that "occupational asthma" used in terms of identifying work factors important to be controlled in that individual’s protection could be different from a definition of occupational asthma in terms of regulatory or litigation issues where, perhaps, part of the definition could be in relation to a breach of a statutory duty of care? I, at least, do not believe that these two issues are the same in relation to asthma and to a number of other health conditions that have some work
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