Shift work and health - How to proceed?

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 81-84

  Mikko, Härmä ^a   Kecklund, Göran ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MELATONIN;

ALERTNESS; BREAST CANCER; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; ERGONOMICS; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; NIGHT WORK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SHIFT WORKER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WORKING TIME; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EATING HABIT; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENETIC REGULATION; HEALTH; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOMNOLENCE;

EID: 77950558125     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.2902     Document Type: Editorial

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