Saudi Arabian expatriate worker fitness-screening programme: A review of 14 years of data;Programme saoudien d'évaluation des aptitudes physiques des travailleurs expatriés: Examen de 14 années de données

Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 664-670

  Alswaidi, F M ^a   Memish, Z A ^a   Al Hakeem, R F ^a   Atlam, S A ^a  

^a MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHIOPIA; EXPATRIATE WORKER; FITNESS; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYPERTENSION; INDONESIA; INFECTION; NEOPLASM; NEPAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PHILIPPINES; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SCREENING; SOMALIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); WORKER;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FOREIGN PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; SAUDI ARABIA; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84881046316     PISSN: 10203397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.26719/2013.19.7.664     Document Type: Review

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