The joint effect of noise exposure and job complexity on distress and injury risk among men and women: The cardiovascular occupational risk factors determination in Israel study

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1023-1032

  Melamed, Samuel ^a   Fried, Yitzhak ^b   Froom, Paul ^a  

^a Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; IRRITABILITY; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORKLOAD;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 5444267218     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.jom.0000141661.66655.a5     Document Type: Article

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