Occupational health in industrializing countries

Occupational Medicine - State of the Art Reviews

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 349-354

  LaDou, Joseph ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; HEALTH; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

COMMERCE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 85062131988     PISSN: 0885114X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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