Does the workplace-smoking ban eliminate differences in risk for environmental tobacco smoke exposure at work?

Health Policy

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 197-202

  Verdonk Kleinjan, Wendy M I ^a   Knibbe, Ronald A ^b   Tan, Frans E S ^b   Willemsen, Marc C ^c   de Groot, Henk N ^a   de Vries, Hein ^b  

^a Voedsel en Waren Autoriteit Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c STIVORO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Employees; Environmental tobacco smoke pollution; Legislation; Occupational groups

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SMOKING; TOBACCO; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68949211163     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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