Psychological workload and body weight: Is there an association? A review of the literature

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-41

  Overgaard, Dorthe ^a,d   Gyntelberg, F ^b   Heitman, B L ^c  

^a School of Nursing and Radiography   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^d NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Body weight; Job control; Job demands; Job strain; Psychological workload; Review; Waist hip ratio

Indexed keywords

BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EATING HABIT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MENTAL STRESS; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORKLOAD;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 1242296129     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqg135     Document Type: Review

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