NIOSH: Puerto Rico townhall meeting transcript - Centers for ...

Engineer and myself will be presenting some
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subjects of investigation that are of principal
interest to the population that our institute
serves.
As can be seen the University of Puerto
Rico in Cayey serves eleven municipalities on
the island for an estimated population of four
hundred sixty seven thousand three hundred
thirty nine inhabitants. Through the institute
of investigations intra disciplinary there has
been achieved a Grant that is permitting the
development of the infrastructure of
investigation of the university. One of the
subjects of particular interest for the
investigators of the institute is the health
condition of the population of workers that
resides in this region, obviously of the eleven
municipalities.
According to the census of the year 2000
it is estimated that the population employed of
sixteen years old or more residing in the
region comes to one hundred six thousand one
hundred eighty four workers. The majority of
them work for the private industry or the