Occupational medicine: Toward a worker/patient empowerment approach to occupational illness

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 515-549

  Lax, Michael B ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; OCCUPATION;

BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHICS; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; REVIEW; THEORY; WORK DISABILITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; FEMALE; FEMINISM; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036442015     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/MQPA-30W3-M4YY-TLBD     Document Type: Review

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