The greatest risk for low-back pain among newly educated female health care workers; Body weight or physical work load?

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Jette Nygaard ^a   Holtermann, Andreas ^a   Clausen, Thomas ^a   Mortensen, Ole Steen ^a,b   Carneiro, Isabella Gomes ^a   Andersen, Lars Louis ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Health care work; Low back pain; Musculoskeletal disorders; Physical work load; Prospective cohort study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MANUAL LABOR; MORBIDITY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORKLOAD; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOW BACK PAIN; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84861826201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-13-87     Document Type: Article

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