Can workers answer their questions about occupational safety and health: Challenges and solutions

Industrial Health

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-249

  Rhebergen, Martijn ^a   Van Dijk, Frank ^a   Hulshof, Carel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Society of Occupational Medicine NVAB   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information sources; Information seeking behavior; Occupational safety and health; Workers

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING; JOB SATISFACTION; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; WORKPLACE;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; JOB SATISFACTION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84863499539     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.MS1344     Document Type: Article

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