Tracking Work-Related Asthma - Publications

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Newsletters and Announcements

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Fact sheets and educational materials

•  Cleaning Products and Work-Related Asthma: Information for Workers (PDF) ...  Spanish  ...  Chinese – fact sheets, February 2013
• Cleaning Products and Work-Related Asthma (PDF) – fact sheet, July 2012
• How to Pilot a Green Cleaning Program in Your School District – webinar, November 2009
• California Asthma Facts: Work-related Asthma (PDF) (2004)
• Wood Dust and Occupational Asthma (PDF) – booklet (2004) 
• Removing Graffiti Safely (PDF) – booklet (revised 2004) 

Newsletters and Announcements

• Certification Standards Help Employers and Cleaners Buy Safer Cleaning Products (PDF) – announcement (2012)
• Manteca Schools Make the Switch to Green Cleaners – Green Schools Initiative Newsletter, September 2010
• California School District Cleans Up—With CLASS – Environmental Working Group Enviroblog, April 2010
• Cleaning for Asthma-Safe Schools (PDF) – Coalition for Adequate School Housing Newsletter, January 2010
• Newly Revised Green Seal™ Standard  for Cleaning Products – announcement (2009)
• Prevention of Occupational Asthma in California (PDF, 2.5MB) – newsletter (2002)

     Related topics in OHB’s Occupational Health Watch newsletter:

•  The Burden of Asthma in California – a Surveillance Report - Chapter 5: Work-related Asthma (PDF)  (16 pages) … Executive Summary (PDF) (6 pages) … Full report (PDF, 5.88) (194 pages, May 2013)
•  Bleach-free Disinfection and Sanitizing for Child Care – 2013 Update by San Francisco Asthma Task Force
• Cleaning for Healthy Schools—Infection Control Handbook (PDF, 1.2 MB) – National Cleaning for Healthy Schools and Infection Control Workgroup, November 2010 (162 pages)
• Investigation of Work-Related Glutaraldehyde Exposures at Two Heart Valve Manufacturing Companies (PDF)  - executive summary (March 2006) 
• Transforming Medical Waste Disposal Practices to Protect Public Health: Worker Health and Safety (PDF, 1.6MB) – Large Scale, Off-Site Steam Autoclaves (104 pages, 2006) 

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Journal Articles

• State-Based, Work-Related Asthma Surveillance Data Online – MMWR announcement (2012)
• Work-Related Asthma — 38 States and District of Columbia, 2006–2009 – MMWR report (2012)
• Response to ‘Efficacy of Green Cleaning Products’ Article (PDF) – letter published in J. of Environmental Health (2009)
• Primary Prevention of Occupational Asthma (PDF)  (2008)
• Glutaraldehyde Exposures Among Workers Making Bioprosthetic Heart Valves (2007)
• Work-Related Asthma in the Educational Services Industry: California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993–2000 (PDF) (2007)
• The Proportion of Self-Reported Asthma Associated with Work in Three States: California, Massachusetts, and Michigan, 2001 (PDF) (2006) 
• Work-Related Asthma Among Health Care Workers: Surveillance data from California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey, 1993-1997 (PDF)  (2005) 
• A descriptive study of work-aggravated asthma – journal article abstract (2004)
• Processes of care for individuals with work related asthma – journal article abstract (2004)
• Work-related Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome - Cases from Surveillance in Selected U.S. States - journal article abstract (2003)
• Cleaning Products and Work-Related Asthma (PDF) (2003) 
• Physician reports of work-related asthma in California, 1993-1996 -  journal article abstract  (2001)
• Surveillance of work-related asthma in selected U.S. states 1993-1995 – MMWR report (1999)

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