Health surveillance of forestry workers exposed to hand-arm vibration in Wakayama from 1974 to 1996

Industrial Health

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 160-165

  Miyashita, Kazuhisa ^a   Tomida, Kotaro ^a   Morioka, Ikuharu ^a   Sasaki, Takeshi ^a   Iwata, Hirotoshi ^b  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forestry workers; Hand arm vibration; Health care system; Health surveillance; Vibration syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CHAIN SAW OPERATOR; FOREST WORKER; HAND; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; VIBRATION;

EID: 0031970028     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.36.160     Document Type: Article

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