Is job title an adequate surrogate to measure magnetic field exposure?

Epidemiology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 115-116

  Floderus, Birgitta ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEOPLASM; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WORK;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030093985     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199603000-00002     Document Type: Article

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