Occupational mobility and risk factors in working men: Selection, causality or both? Results from the GAZEL study

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 901-906

  Ribet, C ^a   Zins, M ^a   Gueguen, A ^a   Bingham, A ^a   Goldberg, M ^a   Ducimetiere P ^a   Lang, T ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH RISK; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MOBILITY; OCCUPATION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SOCIAL CLASS;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY WEIGHT; CAREER MOBILITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FRANCE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONNEL SELECTION; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

FRANCE;

EID: 0242404343     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.57.11.901     Document Type: Article

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