Season, equipment, and job function related to gastrointestinal problems in waste collectors

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 861-867

  Ivens, Ulla Irene ^a   Ebbehøj, Niels ^b   Poulsen, Otto M ^a   Skov, Torsten ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal symptoms; Occupational epidemiology; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; DIARRHEA; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAUSEA; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0031468861     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.54.12.861     Document Type: Article

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