Prevalence of noise induced hearing loss among employees at a mining industry in Zimbabwe

African Health Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 899-906

  Chadambuka, Addmore ^a   Mususa, F ^a   Muteti, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING TEST; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL NOISE; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; NOISE, OCCUPATIONAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84893966501     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v13i4.6     Document Type: Article

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