Determining exposure history in occupational epidemiology;Determinación del historial de exposiciones en la epidemiolgía ocupacional

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 187-196

  Espinosa, Maria Teresa ^a   Partanen, Timo ^b   Piñeros, Marion ^c   Chaves, Jorge ^d   Posso, Héctor ^c   Monge, Patricia ^b   Blanco, Luís ^e   Wesseling, Catharina ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL   (Costa Rica)

^c Instituto Nacional de Cancerología   (Colombia)

^d INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^e Univ Nacional Autónoma   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Occupational risk; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DATA COLLECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF DISCLOSURE;

EID: 27144544976     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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