Surveillance needs for occupational health.
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Surveillance in occupational health.
Adefinition of surveillance is as follows: “surveillance (ser-vâ lens) noun. 1. Close observation of a person or group, especially one under suspicion. 2. The act of observing or the condition of being observed” (The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992). The term “surveillance” is derived from the French word meaning “to watch over”....
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.75.11.1259