Towards population-wide exposure assessment

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 455-456

  Loomis, Dana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS;

EID: 84862531035     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100928     Document Type: Editorial

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