Cancer and occupation in Massachusetts: A death certificate study

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1984, Pages 207-230

  Dubrow, Robert ^a,b   Wegman, David H ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cancer surveillance; death certificates; mortality odds ratio; occupational cancer; occupational cancer surveillance; surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; FATALITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; DEATH CERTIFICATES; HUMAN; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0021137332     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.4700060305     Document Type: Article

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