Job loss and reemployment after a cancer dignosis in Koreans - A prospective cohort study

Psycho-Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 205-213

  Choi, Kui Son ^a   Kim, Eun Jung ^a   Lim, Jin Hwa ^a   Kim, Sung Gyeong ^a   Lim, Min Kyung ^a   Park, Jae Gahb ^a   Park, Eun Cheol ^a  

^a National Cancer Center   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cancer; Oncology; Return to work; Work loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB CHARACTERISTICS; KOREA; LIVER CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STOMACH CANCER; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORK RESUMPTION;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPLOYMENT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 33847699679     PISSN: 10579249     EISSN: 10991611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pon.1054     Document Type: Article

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