Effort-reward imbalance at work and the co-occurrence of lifestyle risk factors: Cross-sectional survey in a sample of 36,127 public sector employees

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kouvonen, Anne ^a   Kivimäki, Mika ^a,b   Virtanen, Marianna ^b   Heponiemi, Tarja ^c   Elovainio, Marko ^c   Pentti, Jaana ^b   Linna, Anne ^b   Vahtera, Jussi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; LIFESTYLE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MARRIAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMPLOYMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FINLAND; JOB SATISFACTION; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; REWARD; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKLOAD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ODDS RATIO; REWARD; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33644555098     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-24     Document Type: Article

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