Mortality among Ontario members of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-9

  Finkelstein, Murray M ^a,b   Verma, Dave K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bricklayers; Canada; Construction workers; Dust exposure; Occupational diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; POPULATION; STOMACH CANCER; TRADE UNION; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HUMANS; LABOR UNIONS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; ONTARIO; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 11944253596     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20116     Document Type: Article

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