Occupational Health and safety in agriculture: Situation and priorities at the beginning of the third millennium

Medicina del Lavoro

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 420-429

  Bulat, P ^a   Somaruga, Chiara ^b   Colosio, C ^b  

^a Institute of Occupational Health   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Child labor; Occupational health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHILD; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AGRICULTURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EID: 38349137922     PISSN: 00257818     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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