Industrial workers' health and environmental pollution under the new international division of labor: The Taiwan experience

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1223-1231

  Chen, Meei Shia ^a   Huang, Chang Ling ^b  

^a The University of Chicago   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; DYE; PLASTIC;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLLUTION; REVIEW; TAIWAN;

EID: 0030794055     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.87.7.1223     Document Type: Review

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