Facial anthropometric dimensions of Koreans and their associations with fit of quarter-mask respirators

Industrial Health

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-18

  Kim, Hyunwook ^a   Han, Don Hee ^b   Roh, Young Man ^a   Kim, Kangyoon ^c   Park, Yong Gyu ^a  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b Inje University   (South Korea)

^c Korean Meat Indust Res Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Facial dimensions; Korean; Quantitative fit factor; Quarter mask

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FACE; FACE MASK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KOREA; LIP; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNIVERSITY; VENTILATOR;

PIERINAE;

EID: 0037283772     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.41.8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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