Evaluation of the risk of coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP): A case study for the Turkish hardcoal mining

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 5, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 3289-3297

  Aydin, H ^a  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coal workers; Coal workers pneumoconiosis (CWP); Logistic model; Logit; Occupational disease; Pneumoconiosis; Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 78951494748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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