Occupational lung diseases and global occupational health on the Net

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-6

  Takahashi, K ^a,f   Sekikawa, A ^b   LaPorte, R E ^b   Satoh, T ^c   Pan, G ^d   Ren, A ^e   Okubo, T ^a   Yoshimura, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Environmental Epidemiology Branch   (China)

^e NORTH CHINA COAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chest radiogram; Global health network; Internet; Pneumoconiosis; Silicosis

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; SILICOSIS;

EID: 0031972747     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/48.1.3     Document Type: Short Survey

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