Uranium Health Studies:
Other Adverse Effects

• "Psychosocial effects" in Navajo uranium workers — Dawson, 1992
  • workers felt betrayed by employers, gov't for not being informed about radiation risks, mining hazards
  • unique cultural beliefs, economic factors inhibited workers' access to health, legal, social services
• Native American millworkers — Madsen et al., 1996
  • twice as likely as non-Indian millworkers to believe their health problems were related to their work
• Nonmaligant respiratory diseases in Native American miners — Mapel et al., 1997
  • RECA formulae systematically underestimated degree of diminished lung function, thereby denying compensation benefits

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