Comparison of subjective symptoms and cold prevention measures in winter between traffic control workers and construction workers in Japan

Industrial Health

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 283-291

  Inaba, Ryoichi ^a   Kurokawa, Junichi ^a   Mirbod, Seyed Mohammad ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Construction; Moderate cold; Out door work; Subjective symptom; Windchill index; Winter

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARM; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BUILDING; CALCULATION; CAREER; CHILL; COLD; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD INJURY; COLD SENSATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSTIPATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; FATIGUE; FINGER; FINGER PAIN; FINGER STIFFNESS; FOOT PAIN; FROZEN SHOULDER; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; HEADACHE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART PALPITATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; JAPAN; KNEE PAIN; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARESTHESIA; POLLAKISURIA; PREVALENCE; PREVENTION STUDY; PROPHYLAXIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAYNAUD PHENOMENON; RISK; SHOE; SMOKING; STIFF NECK; STOMACH DISCOMFORT; SYMPTOM; TEMPERATURE; TINNITUS; TRAFFIC; VELOCITY; VERTIGO; WEAKNESS; WIND; WINTER; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE; WRIST DISEASE; WRIST PAIN;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILES; COLD TEMPERATURE; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEASONS; WIND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549099583     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.283     Document Type: Article

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