In epidemiologic studies on musculoskeletal disorders, some risk factors, especially physical load, cannot be determined independently from the worker. Posture, movement and external load are the result both of physical work requirements forced on the worker and of the worker's capacity to adopt par
Quantitative Risk Assessment in Epidemiological Studies Investigating Threshold Effects
โ Scribed by Ralf Bender
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 229 KB
- Volume
- 41
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-3847
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