Workplace expansion, long-term sickness absence, and hospital admission

Lancet

Volumn 363, Issue 9416, 2004, Pages 1193-1197

  Westerlund, Hugo ^a   Ferrie, Jane ^b   Hagberg, Jan ^c   Jeding, Kerstin ^a   Oxenstierna, Gabriel ^d   Theorell, Töres ^a,d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; ORGANIZATION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 1842686131     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15949-7     Document Type: Article

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