Respiratory health of municipal solid waste workers

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 618-623

  Athanasiou, M ^a   Makrynos, G ^b   Dounias, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

^b Keratsini Municipality ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Occupational exposure; Occupational respiratory disease; Pulmonary function; Waste workers

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BREATHING DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GREECE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VITAL CAPACITY; WASTE DISPOSAL;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEADACHE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 78649764755     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqq127     Document Type: Article

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