Cause-specific mortality among Kelly Air Force Base civilian employees, 1981-2001

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 989-996

  Mundt, Diane J ^a   Dell, Linda D ^a   Luippold, Rose S ^a   Sulsky, Sandra I ^a   Skillings, Anne ^a   Gross, Rachel ^a   Cox, Kenneth L ^b,c   Mundt, Kenneth A ^a  

^a Applied Epidemiology   (United States)

^b Air Force Institute for Operational Health   (United States)

^c Armstrong Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR FORCE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; EMPLOYEE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 0036847413     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-200211000-00003     Document Type: Article

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