Psychosocial work characteristics and self rated health in four post-communist countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 624-630

  Pikhart, H ^a   Bobak, M ^a   Siegrist, J ^b   Pajak, A ^c   Rywik, S ^d   Kyshegyi, J ^e   Gostautas, A ^f   Skodova, Z ^g   Marmot, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF CARDIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e National Public Health Institute   (Hungary)

^f LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

^g INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POST-COMMUNISM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUNGARY; IDEOLOGY; INTERVIEW; JOB ANALYSIS; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION; REWARD; RISK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIAL WORK; SOCIAL WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CZECH REPUBLIC; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HUNGARY; LITHUANIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POLAND; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORKPLACE;

CZECH REPUBLIC; HUNGARY; LITHUANIA; POLAND;

EID: 0034867075     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.55.9.624     Document Type: Article

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