Surveillance of deaths on board Danish merchant ships, 1986-93: Implications for prevention

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 269-275

  Hansen, Henrik L ^a  

^a Institute of Maritime Medicine   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accidents; Maritime medicine; Occupational fatalities

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DENMARK; FATALITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAILOR; SELF POISONING;

EID: 0030007150     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.53.4.269     Document Type: Article

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