Validity of empirical models of exposure in asphalt paving

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 620-624

  Burstyn, I ^a   Boffetta, P ^b   Burr, G A ^c   Cenni, A ^d   Knecht, U ^e   Sciarra, G ^d   Kromhout, H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^d Operative Unit of Industrial Hygiene National Health Service   (Italy)

^e Institute of Occupational and Social Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; BENZO[A]PYRENE;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FUME; GERMANY; HUMAN; ITALY; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WESTERN EUROPE; WORKER;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BENZO(A)PYRENE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; EUROPE; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; UNITED STATES; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 0036360701     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.59.9.620     Document Type: Article

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