Occupation and educational inequalities in laryngeal cancer: The use of a job index

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Santi, Irene ^a   Kroll, Lars Eric ^b   Dietz, Andreas ^c   Becher, Heiko ^a   Ramroth, Heribert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Education; Exposure substance check list; Laryngeal cancer; Occupational indices

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GERMANY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

CARCINOGENS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84887804187     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1080     Document Type: Article

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