Editorial: Eliminating occupational cancer

Industrial Health

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 307-309

  Takala, Jukka ^a  

^a Workplace Safety and Health Institute   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGEN;

HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL;

ASBESTOS; CARCINOGENS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH;

EID: 84941781787     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.53-307     Document Type: Editorial

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