Health care and social issues of immigrant rescue and recovery workers at the World Trade Center site

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1329-1334

  De La Hoz, Rafael E ^a   Hill, Scottie ^a   Chasan, Rachel ^a   Bienenfeld, Laura A ^a   Afilaka, Aboaba A ^a   Wilk Rivard, Elizabeth ^a   Herbert, Robin ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COLOMBIA; COMPENSATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISABILITY; EASTERN EUROPE; ECUADOR; FEMALE; FOREIGN WORKER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HISPANIC; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESCUE WORK; SMOKING; STATISTICS; TERRORISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE, EASTERN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK CITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESCUE WORK; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; SMOKING;

EID: 65849206443     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818ff6fd     Document Type: Article

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