Assessment of physical fitness for occupations encompassing load-carriage tasks

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 357-361

  Bilzon, J L J ^a,b   Allsopp, A J ^a,b   Tipton, M J ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF NAVAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Fitness tests; Load carriage; Occupational fitness; Occupational relevance; Physical fitness

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUSTION; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PERSONNEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; STEADY STATE; TIME; TREADMILL EXERCISE; VELOCITY; VOLUNTEER; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WEIGHT-BEARING; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0034884868     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/51.5.357     Document Type: Article

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