Workforce coverage by GB occupational physicians and disease incidence rates

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 271-278

  Carder, M ^a   Money, A ^a   Turner, S ^a   Agius, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Incidence; Occupational physicians; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; WORK;

DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDUSTRY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH PHYSICIANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WORK;

EID: 84901604129     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqu042     Document Type: Article

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