Low-socioeconomic status workers: Their health risks and how to reach them

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-138

  Harris, Jeffrey R ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Hannon, Peggy A ^a   Williams, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOMBIA; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79952187428     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e3182045f2c     Document Type: Article

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