Psychological and physiological response to job stress in emergency ambulance personnel

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 41, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 121-122

  Kožená, Ludmila ^a   Frantik E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Czech Republic)

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