Unsafe occupational health behaviours: Understanding mercury-related environmental health risks to artisanal gold miners in Ghana

The relationship between environmental exposure and health outcomes is complex, multidirectional and dynamic. Therefore, we need an understanding of these linkages for effective health risk communication. Despite the severe health hazards, artisanal gold mining is widespread globally, with an estima...

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Main Authors: Frederick Ato Armah, Sheila A Boamah, Reginald eQuansah, Samuel eObiri, Isaac eLuginaah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fenvs.2016.00029/full