Exploring the meaning of early contact in return-to-work from workplace actors' perspective

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-145

  Tjulin, Åasa ^a,b   MacEachen, Ellen ^b,c   Ekberg, Kerstin ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early contact; return to work; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SWEDEN; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MOTIVATION; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SWEDEN;

EID: 78649854656     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09638288.2010.489630     Document Type: Article

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