The human costs to staff from closure of a general hospital: An example of the effects of the threat of unemployment and fragmentation of a valued work structure

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 150-154

  Valent, P ^a  

^a NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hospital closures; Psychological effects; Stress; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; COST; COUNSELING; DENIAL; EMOTIONAL STRESS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL STAFF; PERCEPTION; SYMPTOM; UNEMPLOYMENT; VERBALIZATION; WORK;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HEALTH FACILITY CLOSURE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; PERSONNEL DOWNSIZING; SOCIAL VALUES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 0035028018     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2001.00874.x     Document Type: Article

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