Prevalence and factors related to Canadian workplace health programs

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 121-125

  Macdonald, Scott ^a   Csiernik, Richard ^b   Durand, Pierre ^c   Rylett, Margaret ^d   Wild, T Cameron ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Baseline survey; Employee assistance programs; Health Promotion; Substance abuse detection; Worksite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 33645783710     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf03405329     Document Type: Article

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