Work-related psychosocial events as triggers of sick leave - Results from a Swedish case-crossover study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hultin, Hanna ^a   Hallqvist, Johan ^a,b   Alexanderson, Kristina ^a   Johansson, Gun ^c   Lindholm, Christina ^a   Lundberg, Ingvar ^d   Möller, Jette ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; WORK;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN; WORK;

EID: 79953097099     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-175     Document Type: Article

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