Work or place? Assessing the concurrent effects of workplace exploitation and area-of-residence economic inequality on individual health

International Journal of Health Services

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-50

  Muntaner, Carles ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Ng, Edwin ^a   Benach, Joan ^a   Chung, Haejoo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; HOSPITAL SECTOR; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POVERTY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; KENTUCKY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING HOMES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OHIO; POVERTY AREAS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WEST VIRGINIA; WORKPLACE;

KENTUCKY; OHIO; UNITED STATES; WEST VIRGINIA;

EID: 79952091838     PISSN: 00207314     EISSN: 15414469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/HS.41.1.c     Document Type: Article

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