The over-exploitation of mineral resources has led to increasingly serious dust pollution in
mines, resulting in a series of negative impacts on the environment, mine workers …

Each stage in the life cycle of coal—extraction, transport, processing, and combustion—
generates a waste stream and carries multiple hazards for health and the environment …

This article reviews evidence for the public health impacts of coal across the extraction,
processing, use, and waste disposal continuum. Surface coal mining and processing …

Rationale: There is increased lung cancer mortality in rural areas of the United States.
However, it remains unclear to what extent rural–urban differences in disease incidence …

Now in its third edition, this textbook serves to frame understandings of health, health-related
behavior, and health care in light of social and health inequality as well as structural …

We focus on a comparison of the geochemistry and mineralogy patterns found in coal,
deposited dust (DD), respirable deposited dust (RDD) and inhalable suspended dust …

Compared with all other racial and ethnic groups in the United States, African Americans are
disproportionally affected by lung cancer, both in terms of incidence and survival. It is likely …

Birth defects are examined in mountaintop coal mining areas compared to other coal mining
areas and non-mining areas of central Appalachia. The study hypothesis is that higher birth …

This study investigates the environmental exposure of residents of a community in southwest
Virginia to respirable concentrations of dust (PM-10 ie PM10) generated by trucks hauling …

Background Evidence of the association of coal mining with health outcomes such as
increased mortality and morbidity in the general population has been provided by …