Occupational neck and shoulder pain among automobile manufacturing workers in Iran

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 372-379

  Alipour, Akbar ^a,b   Ghaffari, Mostafa ^a,b   Shariati, Batoul ^c   Jensen, Irene ^a   Vingard, Eva ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Life style; Low middle income country; Neck and shoulder pain; Occupational; Physical and psychosocial factors; Prevalence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BODY POSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SHOULDER PAIN; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; IRAN; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NECK PAIN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SHOULDER PAIN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 42349085975     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20562     Document Type: Article

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