The World Health Organization estimates that more than 107 000 people die each year from lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestos disease as a result of exposure to the substance in the workplace
The term "asbestos" on the fibrous minerals group naturally composed and have the benefit of business currently, or had a commercial interest in the past, due to its resistance extraordinary tensile streng
th, poor heat conduction, and relative resistance to chemical attack. For those reasons used asbestos for the purposes of insulation in buildings and in the components of a number of product mix, such as roofing panels, and water pipelines, and blankets fire-fighting, and plastic fillers, and medical packing, as well as used in clutches and cover automotive brakes and Hacyatea and platforms. The most important forms of asbestos are chrysotile (white asbestos) and crocidolite (blue asbestos). Other forms amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite and actinolite. Why put asbestos on the health problem? All forms of asbestos represent carcinogens for humans, and can cause injury mesothelioma, lung cancer and throat cancer and ovarian. Exposure to that article also to other diseases, such as asbestos disease (asbestosis) and plaques membranes and lungs and pleural thickening cases. And it exposed about 125 million people all over the world, currently, to asbestos in their workplaces. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 107 000 people die each year from lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestos disease as a result of exposure to the substance in their places of work. It also is estimated that asbestos is behind one-third of deaths from cancers that occur as a result of exposure to carcinogenic agents in the workplace. Estimates also indicate the possibility of attributing the many thousands of deaths that occur each year to cases of exposure to asbestos in the home
What does the World Health Organization in order to get rid of asbestos-related diseases? It urges the World Health Assembly Resolution 58-22 on cancer prevention Member States to pay particular attention to the types of cancer that is avoidable exposure factor of injury by factors, including exposure to chemicals in the workplace. He requested the World Health Assembly, in its resolution 60-26, to the World Health Organization to carry out a global campaign to get rid of asbestos-related diseases "with .... not to overlook pursue a different style about the various forms of organization in line with the relevant and the latest evidence for the international legal instruments Effective interventions .... "
We must seek, in particular, to get rid of the asbestos-related in countries that still use asbestos diseases, as well as provide the necessary assistance in terms of exposures resulting from the use of all forms of asbestos in the past. And cooperate WHO, ILO and other intergovernmental organizations and civil society organizations with the countries in order to get rid of asbestos-related diseases in the framework of the following strategic directions:
Recognizing that the most effective way to get rid of asbestos-related diseases is to stop the use of that substance in all its forms;
Provide information on solutions aimed at replacing asbestos safer alternatives, and the development of economic and technological mechanisms urges for replacing them;
Take measures to prevent exposure to asbestos at the site and remove it during the (pollution reduction);
- Improve the diagnosis of asbestos-related diseases in the early stages, treatment and rehabilitation of people with socially and medically, and prepare records of the names of persons who have been exposed to asbestos in the past and / or who are exposed to at the present time.
