Unhealthy and healthy weight control behaviours among bus operators

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 138-140

  Escoto, K H ^a   French, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bus operators; Obesity; Weight control behaviour; Work hours

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857670766     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr178     Document Type: Article

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