Description

Since the pneumoconiosis is linked to the mining practice, this research was carried out with the artisanal mining population of the municipality of La Llanada, belonging to Cooperativa Codmilla Ltda., in order to determine the risk factors and associated socio-labor characteristics to the predisposition of the condition. For this, a survey of socio-labor characteristics and the GTC 45 was carried out, in which the variables were taken into account: Job position, Level of risk to the chemical factor, Inappropriate use of personal protective equipment, Cigarette consumption, Stratum, Gender and the years that the subject has been working in mining, with the purpose of determining the possible percentage of the population that has a high and medium risk, and that meets all the criteria to suffer from the disease. In addition, so that the inhabitants have knowledge of the situation and thus generate a positive impact.