Workplace stressors and lifestyle-related cancer risk factors among female physicians: Assessment using the occupational stress index

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-71

  Belkić, Karen ^a,b   Nedic, Olesja ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Ambulatory Health Care Center

Author keywords

Lifestyle related cancer risk factors; Long work hours; Obesity; Occupational stress index; Physicians; Sedentary lifestyle; Smoking; Threat avoidant vigilance; Women; Work stressors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFESTYLE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; YUGOSLAVIA;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; PREVALENCE; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SMOKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 33847624184     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.49.61     Document Type: Article

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