Characteristics of the healthy worker effect

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 359-366

  Baillargeon, Jacques ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; REVIEW; TIME;

EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33748967936     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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