Costs of occupational injury and illness across states

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1084-1095

  Waehrer, Geetha ^a   Leigh, J Paul ^b   Cassady, Diana ^b   Miller, Ted R ^a  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; FINANCE; FISHING; FORESTRY; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; INSURANCE; MALE; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGISTRIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 5444240098     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000141659.17062.4b     Document Type: Article

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