More than meets the eye: Social, economic, and emotional impacts of work-related injury and Illness

New Solutions

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-360

  Lax, Michael B ^a   Klein, Rosemary ^b  

^a Central New York Occupational Health Clinical Center   (United States)

^b SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 60249093810     PISSN: 10482911     EISSN: 15413772     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/NS.18.3.i     Document Type: Article

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