When work is related to disease, what establishes evidence for a causal relation?

Safety and Health at Work

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 110-116

  Verbeek, Jos ^a,b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b Amsterdam Public Health research institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Epidemiological studies; Occupational diseases; Occupational medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879396775     PISSN: 20937911     EISSN: 20937997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5491/SHAW.2012.3.2.110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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