Occupational and social variation in subjective health complaints

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 270-278

  Ihlebæk, Camilla ^a   Eriksen, Hege R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Gastrointestinal complaints; Gender; Medically unexplained symptoms; Musculoskeletal pain; Occupation; Self reported health; Sickness absence; Social; Subjective health complaints

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP PATTERN; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONS; PREVALENCE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0038053105     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg060     Document Type: Article

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