Faces of Black Lung II

Faces of Black Lung II is an informational video with testimonials from miners living with black lung disease and commentary from medical experts. The purpose of this video is to increase awareness that black lung is still occurring in coal miners and to personalize the disease through the miner’s stories, who are younger (30s and 40s) than those who were filmed in the first Faces of Black Lung video (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/video/.... The video is also intended to increase participation in the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program (CWHSP) (https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/cwhs..., a program that provides coal miners with medical tests to identify black lung as quickly as possible and tracks how many coal miners have the disease Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: http://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/... This video can also be viewed at https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/video/lo-re...