Noise levels and hearing ability of female workers in a textile factory in Vietnam

Industrial Health

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-65

  Nguyen, An Luong ^a   Nguyen, The Cong ^a   Le Van, Trinh ^a   Hoang, Minh Hien ^a   Nguyen, Sy ^a   Jonai, Hiroshi ^b   Villanueva, Maria Beatriz G ^b   Matsuda, Shinya ^c   Sotoyama, Midori ^b   Sudo, Ayako ^b  

^a Natl Institute of Labour Protection   (Viet Nam)

^b NATL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hearing ability; Noise; Textile factory; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOISE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; VIET NAM; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 6844252287     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.36.61     Document Type: Article

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