Lifestyle, harassment at work and self-assessed health of female flight attendants, nurses and teachers

Work

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 165-172

  Gunnarsdottir, Holmfridur K ^a   Sveinsdottir, Herdis ^a,b   Bernburg, Jon Gunnar ^b   Fridriksdottir, Hildur ^b   Tomasson, Kristinn ^a  

^a Research Center for Occupational Health and Working Life   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Flight attendants; Life style; Nurses; Occupational health; Teachers; Women's health; Work environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRPLANE CREW; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BULLYING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TEACHER; THREAT; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WORKPLACE VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AVIATION; FACULTY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF-ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; WOMEN, WORKING;

EID: 33748504149     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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