Examining occupational health and safety disparities using national data: A cause for continuing concern

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 527-538

  Steege, Andrea L ^a   Baron, Sherry L ^a   Marsh, Suzanne M ^a   Menéndez, Cammie Chaumont ^a   Myers, John R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

CFOI; CPS; Ethnicity; Fatality; Industry; Injury; Nativity; Occupation; Occupational health disparities; Race; SOII

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897577832     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: 10970274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22297     Document Type: Article

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