The effects of ill health on entering and maintaining paid employment: Evidence in European countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 597-604

  Schuring, Merel ^a   Burdorf, Lex ^a   Kunst, Anton ^a   Mackenbach, Johan ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EMPLOYABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RETIREMENT; SINGLE WOMAN; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34347228178     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2006.047456     Document Type: Article

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