Quality of working life indicators in Canadian health care organizations: A tool for healthy, health care workplaces?

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-59

  Cole, Donald C ^a,b   Robson, Lynda S ^a   Lemieux Charles, Louise ^a,b   McGuire, Wendy ^b   Sicotte, Claude ^c   Champagne, Francois ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Information systems; Occupational health services; Performance measurement; Personnel management

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CANADA; DECISION MAKING; DOCUMENTATION; EMPLOYEE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TAPE RECORDER; WELLBEING;

CANADA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 14644424562     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqi009     Document Type: Article

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