Industrial hygiene, occupational safety and respiratory symptoms in the Pakistani cotton industry

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Khan, Abdul Wali ^a,b   Moshammer, Hanns Michael ^a   Kundi, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Dentistry   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; AIR POLLUTANT; DUST;

ARTICLE; CHECKLIST; CHEST TIGHTNESS; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PAKISTANI; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COTTON; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MANAGEMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COTTON FIBER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PAKISTAN; POLICY MAKING; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EID: 84926657244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-007266     Document Type: Article

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