Surveillance of Australian workplace Based Respiratory Events (SABRE) in New South Wales

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 376-382

  Hannaford Turner, K ^a   Elder, D ^b   Sim, M R ^b   Abramson, M J ^b   Johnson, A R ^a   Yates, D H ^c  

^a Workers' Compensation (Dust Diseases) Board Education and Research Unit   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asbestos related disease; Occupational asthma; Occupational respiratory disease; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; SEX RATIO;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955015933     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq011     Document Type: Article

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