Inequities in reporting asbestos-related lung cancer: Influence of smoking stigma and physician's specialty, workload and role perception

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 392-397

  Verger, Pierre ^a,b   Arnaud, S ^a   Ferrer, S ^a   Iarmarcovai, G ^a   Saliba, M L ^a,b   Viau, A ^c   Souville, M ^d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE RÉGIONAL DE LA SANTÉ PROVENCE ALPES CÔTE D AZUR   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Grand Conseil de la Mutualité Mutuelles de Provence   (France)

^d University of Aix Marseille   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; VIGNETTE; WORKLOAD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; LUNG TUMOR; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ASBESTOS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS, FAMILY; SMOKING; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 44449115680     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.035808     Document Type: Article

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