The work-related fatal injury study: Numbers, rates and trends of work-related fatal injuries in New Zealand 1985-1994

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 1124, 2001, Pages 6-10

  Feyer, Anne Marie ^a,e   Langley, John ^b   Howard, Maureen ^e   Horsburgh, Simon ^a   Wright, Craig ^e   Alsop, Jonathan ^c   Cryer, Colin ^d  

^a New Zealand Environ Occup Hlth R   (New Zealand)

^b Injury Prevention Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^d David Salomons' Estate   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OCCUPATIONS; SEX FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0035951810     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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