Perceived physical and psychosocial exposure and health symptoms of dairy farm staff and possible associations with dairy cow health

Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-125

  Kolstrup, C Lunner ^a   Hultgren, J ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal health; Dairy cow; Exposure; Farm worker; Farmer; Partial spearman rank correlation; Physical; Psychosocial; Questionnaire; Symptom

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DAIRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79958836566     PISSN: 10747583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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