Reporting of skin cancer risks in the house-building industry: Alternative approaches to the analysis of categorical data

Public Health

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 237-242

  Pritchard, C ^a   Dixon, P B ^b  

^a Nottinghamshire County Teaching Primary Care Trust   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Building industry; Categorical data analysis; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; HEALTH RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ARTICLE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL CARCINOGENESIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN CANCER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DATABASES AS TOPIC; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; LINEAR MODELS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 39249084031     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.05.015     Document Type: Article

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