Gender and the physical and psychosocial work environments are related to indoor air symptoms

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 641-650

  Bakke, Jan Vilhelm ^a   Moen, Bente E ^a   Wieslander, Gunilla ^b   Norbäck, Dan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34250376366     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31806e5fa0     Document Type: Article

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