The health of health care organizations

Work and Stress

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 219-227

  Cox, Tom ^a   Leiter, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burnout; Evaluation; Health care; Organizational health; Stress; Training

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MODEL; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WELLBEING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0027102118     PISSN: 02678373     EISSN: 14645335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02678379208259954     Document Type: Article

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