Sickness leave, administrative category and gender: Results from the "casa Gran' project

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 30, Issue 59_suppl, 2002, Pages 26-33

  Moncada, Salvador ^a,d   Navarro, Albert ^b   Cortès, Imma ^c   Molinero, Emilia ^c   Artazcoz, Lucía ^c,d  

^a Union Institute of Work Environment and Health (ISTAS)   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c Munic Inst Pub Hlth of Barcelona   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

absenteeism; health inequalities; sickness leave

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SICK LEAVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPAIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036367440     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: 16511905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14034948020300030501     Document Type: Article

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