Adverse work and environmental conditions predict occupational injuries: The Israeli Cardiovascular Occupational Risk Factors Determination in Israel (CORDIS) study

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 18-26

  Melamed, Samuel ^a,b   Yekutieli, Daniel ^b   Froom, Paul ^a,b   Kristal Boneh, Estela ^a,b   Ribak, Joseph ^a,b  

^a Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Accidents, occupational; Environmental health; Occupational health; Risk; Safety; Stress; Work; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICS; STRESS;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0033169029     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009913     Document Type: Article

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