Results of a community-university partnership to reduce deadly hazards in hardwood floor finishing

Journal of Community Health

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 658-668

  Azaroff, Lenore S ^a   Nguyen, Hoa Mai ^b   Do, Tuan ^a   Gore, Rebecca ^a   Goldstein Gelb, Marcy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b Vietnamese American Initiative for Development   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based participatory research; Environmental justice; Immigrant workers; Occupational health; Toxics use reduction

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONSUMER; COOPERATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; WOOD;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SOLVENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WOOD;

EID: 79961170244     PISSN: 00945145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10900-011-9357-7     Document Type: Article

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