Mortality of a cohort of road construction and maintenance workers with work disability compensation

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 519-526

  D'Errico, Angelo ^a   Mamo, C ^a   Tomaino, A ^a   Dalmasso, M ^a   Demaria, M ^a   Costa, G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Construction industry; Epidemiology; Human occupational diseases; Risk factors; Road construction; Work disability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; ITALY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MONITOR; MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; OCCUPATION; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; SILICOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TESTIS CANCER; WORK DISABILITY; WORKER; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 0041469044     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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