Permanent medical disqualification in airline cabin crew: Causes in 136 cases, 1993-2002

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 981-984

  Pombal, Rui ^a   Peixoto, Helena ^a   Lima, Margarida ^a   Jorge, Anabela ^a  

^a UCS Integrated Health Care   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Early retirement; Fitness to fly; Job reassignment; Permanent incapacitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIRPLANE CREW; AIRPLANE PILOT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EMPLOYABILITY; ETHICS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB PERFORMANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY; PORTUGAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETIREMENT; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; WORK CAPACITY;

ADULT; AVIATION; DECISION MAKING; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; JOB DESCRIPTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 26444486444     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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