Do teachers have more health problems? Results from a French cross-sectional survey

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kovess Masféty, Viviane ^a   Sevilla Dedieu, Christine ^a   Rios Seidel, Carmen ^a   Nerrière, Eléna ^a   Chee, Christine Chan ^a  

^a MGEN Foundation for Public Health   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ECZEMA; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; TEACHER; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VARICOSIS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEACHING; UNIVERSITY;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACULTY; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LARYNGITIS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SICK LEAVE; TEACHING;

EID: 33746509123     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-101     Document Type: Article

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