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Occupational Health Programs for Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: A Systematic Review for the WHO Global Plan of Action for Workers’ Health Cover

Occupational Health Programs for Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining: A Systematic Review for the WHO Global Plan of Action for Workers’ Health

Annals of Global Health
Volume 85 (2019): Issue 1
By: Vivian W. L. Tsang,  Karen Lockhart,  Samuel J. Spiegel and  Annalee Yassi  
Open Access
|Oct 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.2592 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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