Low back pain among cooks in nursery schools

Industrial Health

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 194-201

  Ono, Yuichiro ^a   Shimaoka, Midori ^b   Hiruta, Shuichi ^b   Takeuchi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cooks; Cross sectional; Low back pain; Multifactorial; Number of lunches; Nursery schools; Work relatedness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSERY SCHOOL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS; TEACHER; WORKLOAD;

EID: 0030943637     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.35.194     Document Type: Article

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