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Precarious transition: a mortality study of South African ex-miners

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Published Online: 2018-07-11

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Bloch, Kim

Johnson, Leigh F.

Nkosi, Mlindeli

Ehrlich, Rodney https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5736-9237
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Received: 5 October 2017

Accepted: 25 June 2018

First Online: 11 July 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the Human Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Health, University of Cape Town (ref. 309/2013). As this was an anonymised secondary data source retrospectively spanning 40 years, the requirement for individual informed consent was accepted as non-applicable. The data were made available by TEBA Ltd., Johannesburg, a private company (), and are not publicly available. There was no restriction on publication.

: Prof. Ehrlich has written expert reports for plaintiff lawyers in silicosis litigation proceedings. The other authors report no competing interests.

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