Health inequalities and the psychosocial environment - Two scientific challenges

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1463-1473

  Siegrist, Johannes ^a   Marmot, Michael ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Effort reward imbalance; Europe; Job strain; Psychosocial environment; Social inequalities and health; Stressful work

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS;

EUROPE; HEALTH; HUMAN; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STRESS; WORK;

EID: 0842305115     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(03)00349-6     Document Type: Article

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