Influences on sick building syndrome symptoms in three buildings.
Relationships between symptoms typical of sick building syndrome, musculoskeletal symptoms, and reported indoor environmental exposures, psychological state, work stress and interpersonal relationships at work, were investigated among 624 office workers in three buildings. Symptom prevalences were s...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 245 - 252 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Jan95
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