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Health seeking behaviours among electronic waste workers in Ghana

BACKGROUND: Electronic waste workers are prone to various illnesses and injuries from numerous hazards thus the need for them to seek health care. The aim of this study was to describe health-seeking behavior, and social and other factors affecting this behavior, among electronic waste workers at Ag...

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Autores principales:	Asampong, Emmanuel, Dwuma-Badu, Kwaku, Stephens, Judith, Srigboh, Roland, Neitzel, Richard, Basu, Niladri, Fobil, Julius N.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4609051/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26474859 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2376-z

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