Comprehensive evaluation of long term trends in occupational exposure: Part 2. Predictive models for declining exposures

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 310-316

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

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

^b IL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Long term trends; Occupational exposure; Retrospective assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031971466     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.55.5.310     Document Type: Article

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