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Fatigue and workload among Danish fishermen


- Department of Public Health - Unit for Health Promotion, Univesity of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
- Centre of Maritime Health and Society, University of Southern Denmark, Niels Bohrs Vej 9, 6700 Esbjerg, Denmark
- Department of Occupational Medicine, Hospital of Southwestern Denmark, Denmark
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Abstract
Abstract
Keywords
commercial fishing, fatigue dimensions, work conditions, Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory, MFI-20, occupational health


Title
Fatigue and workload among Danish fishermen
Journal
Issue
Article type
Original article
Pages
252-259
Published online
2017-12-22
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1645
Article views/downloads
1631
DOI
10.5603/IMH.2017.0044
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Bibliographic record
IMH 2017;68(4):252-259.
Keywords
commercial fishing
fatigue dimensions
work conditions
Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory
MFI-20
occupational health
Authors
Line Nørgaard Remmen
Kimmo Herttua
Jørgen Riss-Jepsen
Gabriele Berg-Beckhoff


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