Adverse health experience in male workers during the boom economy in Japan

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 131-132

  Kagamimori, Sadanobu ^a   Nasermoaddeli, Ali ^a   Wang, Hongbing ^a   Sekine, Michikazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Economy; Japan; Mortality rate; Occupational groups

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EMPLOYEE; FISHERMAN; FORESTRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANAGER; MINER; MORTALITY; OFFICE WORKER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; WORKER;

CAUSE OF DEATH; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONS;

EID: 0037365366     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.45.131     Document Type: Article

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