Chronic stress and social changes: Socioeconomic determination of chronic stress

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1113, Issue , 2007, Pages 325-338

  Kopp, Mária S ^a   Skrabski, Árpád ^a   Székely, András ^a   Stauder, Adrienne ^a   Williams, Redford ^b  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Depression; Gender differences; Premature mortality; Socioeconomic differences, coping, stress management; Transforming societies

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK; WORKLOAD;

EID: 35548935087     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1391.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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