Overview of the medical consequences of shift work

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 351-361

  Rohr, Susan M ^a   Von Essen, Susanna G ^a   Farr, Lynn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN;

ANAMNESIS; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ETHNOLOGY; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIALIZATION; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SHIFT WORKER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORK SCHEDULE;

EID: 0038637156     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1526-0046(03)00036-0     Document Type: Review

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