Comprehensive evaluation of long term trends in occupational exposure: Part 1. Description of the database

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 300-309

  Symanski, Elaine ^a   Kupper, Lawrence L ^b   Rappaport, Stephen M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; Long term trends; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARCINOGENICITY; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031960149     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.5.300     Document Type: Article

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