The Association between Annually-repeated Health Screening and Health Behavior among Company Employees

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 57-64

  Hagihara, Akihito ^a   Tarumi, Kimio ^b   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annual; Behavior; Change; Health; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 2842536969     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931191     Document Type: Article

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