Ill health, social protection, labour relations, and sickness absence

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 228-229

  Benavides, F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; EMPLOYMENT; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL PROBLEM; WORK DISABILITY; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LABOR UNIONS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; SICK LEAVE;

EID: 33645682411     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.025817     Document Type: Note

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