The "medicine in Australia: Balancing employment and life (MABEL)" longitudinal survey - Protocol and baseline data for a prospective cohort study of Australian doctors' workforce participation

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Joyce, Catherine M ^a   Scott, Anthony ^b   Jeon, Sung Hee ^b   Humphreys, John ^a   Kalb, Guyonne ^b   Witt, Julia ^c   Leahy, Anne ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AUSTRALIA; DATA COLLECTION; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 77949533509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-50     Document Type: Article

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