Mental health and wellbeing and unemployment

Australian Economic Review

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-181

  Flatau, Paul ^a   Galea, June ^a   Petridis, Ray ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MENTAL HEALTH; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033913019     PISSN: 00049018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8462.00145     Document Type: Article

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