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Keywords
Climate (campaign title)
Coal
Coal mining
Hands
Health
Illness
Indoors
KWCI (GPI)
Men
Miners
One person
Physicians
Silhouettes
Black Lung Disease in Appalachia
A medical expert in Black Lung disease examines the chest x-ray of a coal miner at the Tug River Black Lung Clinic where he comes once a week. Health care is an unaffordable luxury in McDowell County where about 75% of people have little or no health insurance and one of the highest levels of diabetes and other health problems in the United States.
Unique identifier:
GP02F8U
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
31/05/2011
Locations:
Appalachian Mountains
,
North America
,
United States of America
,
West Virginia
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Health Impacts on West Virginia Coal Miners
A documentation on retired miners suffering from Black Lung and other lung diseases. They have been denied benefits for Black Lung Disease and are dying from the impacts of breathing coal dust.
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