Relationships of Job and Some Individual Characteristics to Occupational Injuries in Employed People: A Community-Based Study

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 382-391

  Bhattacherjee, Ashis ^a   Chau, Nearkasen ^b   Sierra, Carmen Otero ^b   Legras, Bernard ^c   Benamghar, Lahoucine ^b   Michaely, Jean Pierre ^b   Ghosh, Apurna Kumar ^a   Guillemin, Francis ^c   Ravaud, Jean François ^b   Mur, Jean Marie ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c Laboratoire d'Excellence Inflamex   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Alcohol use; Diseased people; Employed people; Job; Occupational injury; Overweight; Psychotropic drug use; Sex; Smoking habit

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMMUNITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GENDER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WORK;

EID: 9144274350     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.45.382     Document Type: Article

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