Surveillance of potential associations between occupations and causes of death in Canada, 1965-91

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 265-269

  Aronson, Kristan J ^a   Howe, Geoffrey R ^b   Carpenter, Maureen ^c   Fair, Martha E ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HEALTH STATISTICS DIVISION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Mortality; Occupation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; CAR DRIVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DRIVER; FEMALE; HAIRDRESSER; HUMAN; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033021848     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.56.4.265     Document Type: Article

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