Psychosocial Working Conditions and Self-reported Long-term Illness: A Population-based Study of Swedish-born and Foreign-born Employed Persons

Ethnicity and Health

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 307-317

  Sundquist, Jan ^a   Östergren, Per Olof ^b   Sundquist, Kristina ^a   Johansson, Sven Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Job demand; Job strain; Long term illness; Migration status; Refugee; Survey

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MORBIDITY; REFUGEE; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MANUAL LABOR; MIGRATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; REFUGEE; SALARY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REFUGEES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SWEDEN; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; WORKPLACE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 0345735764     PISSN: 13557858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1355785032000163939     Document Type: Article

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