The economic evaluation of a Participatory Ergonomics programme to prevent low back and neck pain

Work

Volumn 41, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 2315-2320

  Driessen, Maurice ^a   Bosmans, Judith ^b   Proper, Karin ^a   Anema, Johannes ^a   Bongers, Paulien ^a,c   Van Der Beek, Allard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cost benefit; cost effectiveness; economic evaluation; musculoskeletal pain; participatory ergonomics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; NECK PAIN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; NECK PAIN; NETHERLANDS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH;

EID: 84859876204     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0458-2315     Document Type: Conference Paper

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