Occupational health and safety challenges in China-focusing on township-village enterprises

Archives of Environmental and Occupational Health

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-11

  Wang, Xiaorong ^a   Wu, Siying ^b   Song, Qingkun ^a   Tse, Lap Ah ^a   Yu, Ignatius T S ^a   Wong, Tze Wai ^a   Griffiths, Sian ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b FUJIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; occupational health; township and village enterprises; work related disease; workplace injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COAL MINING; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MIGRANT WORKER; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOWNSHIP AND VILLAGE OWNED ENTERPRISE; ENVIRONMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SAFETY; STATISTICS; WORKPLACE;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHINA; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 79953780829     PISSN: 19338244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2010.486424     Document Type: Article

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