Downsizing and Health at the United States Department of Energy

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 481-491

  Pepper, Lewis ^a   Messinger, Miriam ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Campbell, Richard ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Downsizing; Fairness; Job stress; Survivor syndrome; Work organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EMPLOYEE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB SATISFACTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRESS; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WELLBEING; WORKER;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONNEL DOWNSIZING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0242710653     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10303     Document Type: Article

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