Sleep-related risk of occupational injuries in Japanese small and medium-scale enterprises

Industrial Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 89-97

  Nakata, Akinori ^a,b   Ikeda, Tomoko ^c   Takahashi, Masaya ^a   Haratani, Takashi ^a   Fujioka, Yosei ^d   Fukui, Satoe ^e   Swanson, Naomi G ^b   Hojou, Minoru ^f   Araki, Shunichi ^a  

^a NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c IBARAKI PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e TOKYO GAKUGEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f Ota Regional Occupational Health Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Occupational injury; Safety; Sleep; Small and medium scale enterprise

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; INSOMNIA; JAPAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP INDUCTION; SLEEP TIME; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HABITS; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 13844307317     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.43.89     Document Type: Review

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