Impact of a cleaners' strike on compensation claims for asthma among teachers in Ontario

Canadian Respiratory Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 171-174

  Ribeiro, Marcos ^a,b   Buyantseva, Larisa V ^a   Liss, Gary M ^a   Luce, Carol E ^c   Tarlo, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cleaners; Compensation claim; Strike; Toronto District School Board; Work exacerbated asthma; Workplace Safety and Insurance Board

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CLEANER; COMPENSATION; COMPENSATION CLAIM; HUMAN; NAMED GROUPS BY OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHER; WORK; WORK STRIKE;

EID: 84882308321     PISSN: 11982241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/457582     Document Type: Article

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