Recent advances: Occupational disease

British Medical Journal

Volumn 318, Issue 7195, 1999, Pages 1397-1399

  Cherry, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY;

FORECASTING; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0033594673     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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