Quality of life and employment status of workers with western red cedar asthma

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1040-1045

  Dimich Ward, Helen ^a   Taliadouros, Virginia ^a   Teschke, Kay ^a   Chow, Yat ^a   Abboud, Raja ^a   Chan Yeung, Moira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VGH Research Pavilion ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUNIPERUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREES;

JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA; THUJA PLICATA;

EID: 34548580236     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31814b2e5c     Document Type: Article

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