Personal values of male and female doctors: Gender aspects

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 559-568

  Neittaanmäki, Liisa ^a   Gross, Edith B ^d   Virjo, Irma ^b   Hyppölä, Harri ^c   Kumpusalo, Esko ^c  

^a SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Finland; Gender; Physicians; Values

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY LIFE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENDER; HEALTH; HUMAN; IDEOLOGY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; WELLBEING; WORK;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIANS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 0032918479     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00375-X     Document Type: Article

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