Individual characteristics in occupational accidents due to imbalance: A case-control study of the employees of a railway company

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 330-335

  Gauchard, G C ^a   Chau, N ^a   Touron, C ^b   Benamghar, L ^a   Dehaene, D ^b   Perrin, Ph P ^a   Mur, J M ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Dept des Serv Medicaux ^*  (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BALANCE DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; FALLING; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY; SLEEP DISORDER; SMOKING; ACCIDENT PRONENESS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; WORK;

ACCIDENT PRONENESS; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; POSTURE; RAILROADS; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 0038410157     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.60.5.330     Document Type: Article

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