An investigation into the effects of vacations on the health status in male white-collar workers

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 23-30

  Tarumi, Kimio ^a   Hagihara, Akihito ^b   Morimoto, Kanehisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leisure; Lifestyle; Stress; Vacation; Working hours

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LEISURE; LIFE SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; STRESS;

EID: 0031833188     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931235     Document Type: Article

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