Mental health disorders and work-life balance

Promoting Health for Working Women

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 117-136

  Schmitt, Natalie M ^a   Fuchs, Andreas ^a   Kirch, Wilhelm ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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EID: 67650983995     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-73038-7_4     Document Type: Chapter

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