Exposure assessment in ergonomic epidemiology: Is there something specific to the assessment of biomechanical exposures?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 143-144

  Leclerc, A ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; FORMALDEHYDE;

BIOMECHANICS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CARCINOGENESIS; EDITORIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; ERGONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 14544303163     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.017889     Document Type: Editorial

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