Alcohol consumption and work-related injuries among farmers in Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 825-835

  Wang, Limin ^a,b   Wheeler, Krista ^b   Bai, Li ^a   Stallones, Lorann ^c   Dong, Yanmei ^a   Ge, Jie ^a   Xiang, Huiyun ^b,d  

^a QIQIHAR MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Alcohol; Chinese farmers; Injury; Non fatal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURE; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954794412     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aiim.20817     Document Type: Article

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