Work-related diseases and injury of Korean farmer: causes, epidemiology, and countermeasure

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J Korean Med Assoc. 2012;55(11):1044-1045

Publication date (electronic) : 2012 November 16

doi : https://doi.org/10.5124/jkma.2012.55.11.1044

Sang Baek Ko, MD ¹^,²

¹Department of Preventive Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.

²Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.

Corresponding author: Sang Baek Ko, kohhj@yonsei.ac.kr

Received 2012 October 10; Accepted 2012 October 20.

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