Sick leave among native and immigrant workers in Spain - A 6-month follow-up study

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 438-443

  Soler González, Jorge ^a,e   Serna, Maria Catalina ^a   Bosch, Anna ^a   Ruiz, Maria Cristina ^b   Huertas, Elisard ^c   Rué, Montserrat ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b Example Primary Care Health Center   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT CATALÀ DE LA SALUT   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^e CS Rambla de Ferran   (Spain)

Author keywords

Absenteeism; Immigration; Job satisfaction; Migrant worker; Occupational health; Population dynamics; Sickness absence; Socioeconomic inequality

Indexed keywords

DISABILITY; IMMIGRATION; MIGRANT WORKER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; ABSENTEEISM; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; EASTERN EUROPE; ETHNOLOGY; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; STATISTICS;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPE, EASTERN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SICK LEAVE; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61549083087     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: 1795990X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.1288     Document Type: Article

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