The workplace as a setting for promoting health and preventing disease

Homeostasis in Health and Disease

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 226-232

  Oldenburg, Brian ^a   Harris, David ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

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