Stress perception and commuting

Health Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 559-576

  Gottholmseder, Georg ^a   Nowotny, Klaus ^b   Pruckner, Gerald J ^c   Theurl, Engelbert ^d  

^a Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance   (Austria)

^b AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH WIFO   (Austria)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Commuting; Ordered logit regression; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPORT STRESS; TRAVEL; WORKER; WORKING TIME; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUSTRIA; DATA COLLECTION; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSPORTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67149137839     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1389     Document Type: Article

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