Respiratory symptoms among inuit carvers in nunavut

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 304-307

  Tofflemire, Karen M ^a   Hessel, Patrick A ^b   Green, Francis H Y ^c   Yoshida, Ken ^b   Michaelchuk, Dennis ^a   Cowie, Robert L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary ^*  (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inuit health; occupational lung disease; respiratory symptoms; stone carving

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE;

CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEYS; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; FINER PARTICLES; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORTHERN CANADA; ORGANIC MEDIA; RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS; STONE CARVING;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84928940014     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/46.suppl-1.304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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