Abstract：
Estimates of occupational disease burden provide important information on which effective policy and regulations can be developed. However, there is no direct way that these data can be obtained, and most burden estimates are derived by merging different data from diverse sources to synthesize estimates of the number of people made ill or who have died from workplace exposures. In recent years, several research groups have published estimates of occupational health burden at national or global scales; these are not always consistent. The World Health Organisation and the International Labour Organisation have taken on the task of producing occupational disease burden estimates for several workplace agents, which we assume are to be seen as the definitive global, regional, and national data. In this commentary, we critique the WHO/ILO approach for their estimates of the non-melanoma skin cancer burden from solar ultraviolet radiation and some of their results for hazardous particulates. We provide recommendations for researchers undertaking occupational burden estimates that they should report along with their data.
摘要：
职业病负担的估计提供了可以制定有效政策和法规的重要信息。然而,没有直接的方法可以获得这些数据，大多数负担估计是通过合并来自不同来源的不同数据来综合估计因工作场所暴露而患病或死亡的人数。近年来,一些研究小组已经发布了国家或全球范围内的职业健康负担估计;这些并不总是一致的.世界卫生组织和国际劳工组织承担了为几个工作场所代理人编制职业病负担估计数的任务，我们认为这将被视为最终的全球，区域,国家数据。在这篇评论中,我们批评WHO/ILO方法对太阳紫外线辐射引起的非黑素瘤皮肤癌负担的估计以及有害颗粒物的一些结果。我们为进行职业负担估算的研究人员提供建议，他们应与数据一起报告。
