Job control, job demands, or social class? The impact of working conditions on the relation between social class and health

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-54

  Rahkonen, Ossi ^a   Laaksonen, Mikko ^a   Martikainen, Pekka ^a   Roos, Eva ^a,b   Lahelma, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH STATUS; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; KARASEK DEMAND CONTROL MODEL; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ETELA-SUOMEN; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; HELSINKI; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 29744463680     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2005.035758     Document Type: Article

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