Estimating the global burden of low back pain attributable to combined occupational exposures
✍ Scribed by Laura Punnett; Annette Prüss-Ütün; Deborah Imel Nelson; Marilyn A. Fingerhut; James Leigh; SangWoo Tak; Sharonne Phillips
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 139 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0271-3586
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