Characterizing workplace exposures in Vietnamese women working in California nail salons

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Quach, Thu ^a   Gunier, Robert ^a   Tran, Alisha ^b   Von Behren, Julie ^a   Doan Billings, Phuong An ^b   Nguyen, Kim Dung ^b   Okahara, Linda ^b   Lui, Benjamin Yee Bun ^b   Nguyen, Mychi ^b   Huynh, Jessica ^c   Reynolds, Peggy ^a  

^a Cancer Prevention Institute of California   (United States)

^b Asian Health Services   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ACETIC ACID ETHYL ESTER; ISOPROPYL ACETATE; METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; TOLUENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NAIL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WORKPLACE;

ACETATES; ADULT; AGED; BEAUTY CULTURE; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHYLMETHACRYLATE; MIDDLE AGED; NAILS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TOLUENE; VIETNAM; WORKPLACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 81555220087     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2010.300099     Document Type: Article

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