Voice changes during work: Subjective complaints and objective measurements for female primary and secondary schoolteachers

Journal of Voice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 344-355

  Rantala, Leena ^a   Vilkman, Erkki ^b,c   Bloigu, Risto ^b  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Female teacher; Loading; Warm up; Working environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LARYNX DISORDER; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHER; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK SCHEDULE; HOSPITALIZATION; NOISE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VOICE; WORK;

FEMALE; HUMANS; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY; WORK;

EID: 0036726455     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0892-1997(02)00106-6     Document Type: Article

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