Effects of onboard insecticide use on airline flight attendants

Archives of Environmental Health

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 284-291

  Kilburn, Kaye H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airlines; Flight attendant; Insecticide; Neurotoxicity; Occupational exposure; Pyrethroids

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COLOR DISCRIMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; LUNG FUNCTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; SCORING SYSTEM; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; AIRCRAFT; DISABLED PERSONS; DIZZINESS; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RETIREMENT;

EID: 27144483811     PISSN: 00039896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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