Differences in mortality rates due to major specific causes between Japanese male occupational groups over a recent 30-year period

Industrial Health

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 328-335

  Kagamimori, Sadanobu ^a   Kitagawa, Toyoko ^a   Nasermoaddeli, Ali ^a   Wang, Hongbing ^a   Kanayama, Hitomi ^a   Sekine, Michikazu ^a   Dilixat, Yakefu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mortality rates; Occupational groups; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; SUICIDE;

EID: 3342984890     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.42.328     Document Type: Article

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