Age-related overexertion injuries among Swedish nursing auxiliaries over a 10-year period

Work

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 139-148

  Laflamme, Lucie ^a,b   Menckel, Ewa ^a,c   Strömberg, Anneli ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accident patterns; Age related overexertion risk; Cluster analysis; Male and female nursing auxiliaries

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NURSE; NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OVEREXERTION; SAFETY; WORK DISABILITY;

EID: 0031052660     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/wor-1997-8204     Document Type: Article

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