Ocular morbidity and fuel use: An experience from India

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 66-69

  Saha, A ^a   Kulkarni, P K ^a   Shah, A ^a   Patel, M ^a   Saiyed, H N ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; FUEL; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATARACT; CATTLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; EYE IRRITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WOOD;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CATARACT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOSSIL FUELS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SMOKE;

BOS TAURUS;

EID: 11244349850     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.015636     Document Type: Article

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