Job strain - Attributable depression in a sample of working Australians: Assessing the contribution to health inequalities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  LaMontagne, Anthony D ^a   Keegel, Tessa ^a   Vallance, Deborah ^a   Ostry, Aleck ^b   Wolfe, Rory ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK;

DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VICTORIA; WORK;

EID: 44949120590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-181     Document Type: Article

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