The joint effect of industrial noise exposure and job complexity on all-cause mortality - The CORDIS study

Noise and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 16, 2002, Pages 23-31

  Melamed, Samuel ^a   Froom, Paul ^a  

^a Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Follow up study; Job complexity; Mortality; Noise exposure; Occupational

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 5444250161     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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