Assessing workplace exposures: Turning to the past for guidance

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 429-430

  Rappaport, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AIR SAMPLING; DUST EXPOSURE; EDITORIAL; ENGINEERING; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKPLACE;

DUST; GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PNEUMOCONIOSIS;

EID: 67650507481     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2006.027052     Document Type: Editorial

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