Occupational infectious diseases among Korean health care workers compensated with industrial accident compensation insurance from 1998 to 2004

Industrial Health

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 448-454

  Ahn, Yeon Soon ^a   Lim, Hyun Sul ^b  

^a Dongguk University Ilsan Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Dongguk University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Compensated occupational infectious diseases; Health care workers

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEPATITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE; NURSING ASSISTANT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; SCABIES; TUBERCULOSIS; WARD; WORKING TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INSURANCE, ACCIDENT; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 54449091756     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.46.448     Document Type: Article

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