Work-related infectious diseases among Korean workers compensated under the industrial accident compensation insurance law, 2006-2011

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 344-351

  Myong, Jun Pyo ^a,b   Ahn, Yeon Soon ^c   Kim, Hyoung Ryoul ^a,b   Kim, Youn Jeong ^b   Park, Chung Yill ^a,b   Koo, Jung Wan ^a,b  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c Dongguk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Communicable diseases; Health care workers; Korea; Occupational diseases; Scrub typhus; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS; TIME; WORKMAN COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84886794232     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2049396713Y.0000000042     Document Type: Article

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