Status of health promotion programme implementation in small-scale enterprises in Japan

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 65-70

  Muto, T ^a   Hsieh, S D ^b   Sakurai, Y ^b  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Construction industry; Health education; Health examination; Health promotion; Japan; Occupational health services; Questionnaire survey; Small scale enterprises

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; EXERCISE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SMOKING;

EID: 0033016191     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/49.2.65     Document Type: Article

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