Factors associated with premature departure from working life among ageing food industry employees

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-68

  Salonen, Paula ^a   Arola, H ^b   Nygard C H ^a   Huhtala, H ^a   Koivisto, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

^b Tampere Occupational Health Center   (Finland)

Author keywords

Degree of disability; Early exit from working life; Health status; Job related factors; Sickness absence; Work ability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PENSIONER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; WORKLOAD;

ABSENTEEISM; AGED; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RETIREMENT; RISK FACTORS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 0345701475     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg012     Document Type: Article

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