Limitations on work and attendance rates after employees with cancer returned to work at a single manufacturing company in Japan

Journal of Occupational Health

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 267-272

  Ohguri, Takayuki ^a,b   Narai, Rie ^a   Funahashi, Atsushi ^a   Nishiura, Chihiro ^c   Yamashita, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yarita, Keiichiro ^a   Korogi, Yukunori ^b  

^a MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c TOKYO GAS CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Employment; Quality of life; Return to work; Work limitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; WORK CAPACITY; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; AGED; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SICK LEAVE; SURVIVORS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WORK SCHEDULE TOLERANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69949089667     PISSN: 13419145     EISSN: 13489585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1539/joh.O8013     Document Type: Article

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