You are here

Article info

Article menu

Download PDFPDF

XML
Occupational and environmental medicine
Original research
Cross-sectional study of the health of southern African truck drivers

Authors

  • Samanta Tresha Lalla-Edward Ezintsha, a sub-division of Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alex Emilio Fischer Ezintsha, a sub-division of Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • W D Francois Venter Ezintsha, a sub-division of Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Karine Scheuermaier Wits Sleep Laboratory, Brain Function Research Group, School of Physiology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Ruchika Meel Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Catherine Hankins Department of Global Health and Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gabriela Gomez Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Melvin Draaijer Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VU Medical Center, Department of Global Health, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Alinda G Vos Ezintsha, a sub-division of Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa Julius Global Health, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Mr Alex Emilio Fischer; afischer{at}wrhi.ac.za
View Full Text

Citation

Lalla-Edward ST, Fischer AE, Venter WDF, et al
Cross-sectional study of the health of southern African truck drivers
BMJ Open 2019;9:e032025. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032025

Publication history

  • Received May 30, 2019
  • Revised August 29, 2019
  • Accepted September 25, 2019
  • First published October 28, 2019.
Online issue publication 
May 31, 2023
Previous versions
Review history

Request permissions

If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Copyright information

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.