Reducing the impact of unemployment on health: Revisiting the agenda for primary health care

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-122

  Harris, Elizabeth ^a   Harris, Mark F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; UNEMPLOYMENT; ARTICLE; GENERAL PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER;

FAMILY PRACTICE; HUMANS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EID: 70349328059     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2009.tb02709.x     Document Type: Review

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