Trends in absenteeism due to sickness and injury between 1986 and 1995 at a shipbuilding company

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 271-278

  Katsuyama, Hironobu ^a   Tsuchiya, Goro ^b   Sunami, Shigeo ^a   Saijoh, Kiyofumi ^c  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Mitsubishi Kobe Hospital   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Sickness and injury; The annual incidence rate; The annual rate of days absent; Trends in absenteeism

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0033402559     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.41.271     Document Type: Article

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