Evaluation of occupational disease surveillance in six EU countries

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 509-516

  Spreeuwers, D ^a   de Boer, A G E M ^a   Verbeek, J H A M ^a,b   van Dijk, F J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Occupational diseases; Preventive policy; Quality evaluation; Registries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; POLICY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POLICY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES;

EID: 77957284216     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq133     Document Type: Article

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