Public health approaches to occupational injury prevention: do they work?
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention
دوره 7 Suppl 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001