Occupational injury and illness surveillance: Conceptual filters explain underreporting

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 92, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1421-1429

  Azaroff, Lenore S ^a   Levenstein, Charles ^a   Wegman, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036721618     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.92.9.1421     Document Type: Article

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