Industrial differences in female fertility treatment rates - A new approach to assess differences related to occupation?

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-171

  Feveile, Helene ^a   Hannerz, Harald ^a   Hougaard, Karin Sørig ^a   Schmidt, Lone ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Disorders of environmental origin; infertility; population surveillance; registries; women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREGNANCY; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 79952570973     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1403494810391525     Document Type: Article

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