ArticleLa Medicina del lavoro2023
Occupational Exposure to Solar Radiation and the Eye: A Call to Implement Health Surveillance of Outdoor Workers.
Article in La Medicina del lavoro, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Editorial: Environmental or occupational exposure to optical radiation: risk evaluation, health effects and prevention - tangible innovation for public and occupational health? volume II.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- The nonlinear impact of air pollutants and solar radiation exposure on the risk of hospitalisation for pterygium among adults in Shanghai, China: a time series analysis.Journal of global health · 2025Article
- Assessment of ultraviolet radiation impact on human skin tissue using double-exposure digital holographic interferometry.Journal of biomedical optics · 2025Article
- Prevalence of pterygium and pinguecula and their risk factors: Tehran Geriatric Eye Study.International journal of ophthalmology · 2025Article
- Occupational exposure to solar ultraviolet radiation among outdoor workers in Lisbon, 2023-first results of the MEAOW study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Observational
- Solar Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure Among Opencast Miners in Namibia with the Use of Electronic Dosimeters: A Feasibility Study.Annals of global health · 2024Article
- Identification of biomarkers and immune microenvironment associated with pterygium through bioinformatics and machine learning.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Article
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7 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
Globally, hundreds of millions of outdoor workers are exposed to solar radiation (SR) for the majority of their working life. Such occupational exposure is known to induce various adverse health effects to the eyes, mainly related to its ultraviolet (UV) component. The present work is a call-to-action aimed at raising the awareness on the need of health surveillance for the prevention of the chronic ocular diseases in outdoor workers. Photo-chemical chronic damage can induce pterygium at the outer layer of the eye and cataract in the lens. Considering carcinogenic effects, rare squamous-cells tumors of the cornea and/or of the conjunctiva and the ocular melanomas are associated with UV radiation exposure. Solar UV-related eye diseases should be considered as "occupational diseases" when there is sufficient exposure in workers, but they are often not recognized, and/or frequently not reported to the national compensation authorities. Therefore, to prevent the burden of these work-related eye pathologies, an adequate risk assessment with identification of appropriate preventive measures, and a provision of periodic health surveillance to the exposed workers, in particular considering those at higher risk of exposure or with individual susceptibility, should be urgently implemented.
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