Work-Related Lung Disease (WoRLD) Surveillance System

Work-related asthma: Number of cases by ascertainment source and state, 1993–1999

- indicates no cases reported.
* Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey actively solicit reports from physicians; California uses an existing administrative data source to
passively identify physician reports of work-related asthma.
† Some cases

Note:  Percentages may not sum to 100% due to rounding. See appendices for source description.

Source:  Provisional SENSOR surveillance data as of September 2002, aggregated by reporting source years, and reported by R Harrison and J Flattery (California); L Davis, E Pechter, and B Pazos (Massachusetts); K Rosenman, MJ Reilly, and D Kalinowski (Michigan); and D Valiante and D Schill (New Jersey).

Most Recent Version:

2007T09-04