Prevalence and risk factors for low back pain among professional cooks working in school lunch services

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Nagasu, Miwako ^a,b   Sakai, Kazuhiro ^b   Ito, Akiyoshi ^c   Tomita, Shigeru ^d   Temmyo, Yoshiomi ^e   Ueno, Mitsuo ^f   Miyagi, Shigeji ^a  

^a KAGAWA NUTRITION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE OF LABOUR   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Minatomachi Medical Center   (Japan)

^f National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Japan   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COOKING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENT; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GENDER; HEIGHT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; JOB STRESS; KITCHEN; LIFE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SMOKING; STRESS; WORK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; JAPAN; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; COOKERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 34548537220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-171     Document Type: Article

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