Education of Garment Workers: Prevention of Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders

Workplace Health and Safety

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 338-343

  Pun, Jane Chao ^a   Burgel, Barbara J ^a   Chan, Jackie ^b   Lashuay, Nan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Health and Human Services   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOENGINEERING; CHINA; EDUCATION; ETHNOLOGY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTORS; SAN FRANCISCO; TAIWAN; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 4644244482     PISSN: 21650799     EISSN: 21650969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/216507990405200807     Document Type: Article

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