Traumatic work related mortality among seafarers employed in British merchant shipping, 1976-2002

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 172-180

  Roberts, S E ^a   Marlow, P B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DROWNING; DRUG INTOXICATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAILOR; SAMPLE SIZE; SEA ACCIDENT; SHIPPING; SUICIDE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAVAL MEDICINE; SUICIDE;

EID: 14544272774     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2003.012377     Document Type: Article

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