Mortality among migrant tunnel workers.
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Mortality among migrant tunnel workers.
To clarify the mortality pattern of migrant tunnel workers, a retrospective cohort study was conducted in the southern part of Oita Prefecture, which is well known as a source area for tunnel workers. This study was made on 1,078 tunnel workers and 943 non-tunnel workers who were observed for 8 years and 6 months from January 1975 to June 1983. The overall SMR of tunnel workers was 162 which wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sangyo Igaku
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0047-1879,1881-1302
DOI: 10.1539/joh1959.30.481