Performance of population specific job exposure matrices (JEMs): European collaborative analyses on occupational risk factors for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with job exposure matrices (ECOJEM)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 126-132

  Le Moual, N ^a   Bakke, P ^b   Orlowski, E ^a   Heederik, D ^c   Kromhout, H ^c   Kennedy, S M ^d   Rijcken, B ^e   Kauffmann, F ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Department Thoracic Medicine ^*  (Norway)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Job exposure matrix; Lung function; Occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SMOKING;

ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034103428     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.57.2.126     Document Type: Article

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