Organisational merger and psychiatric morbidity: A prospective study in a changing work organisation

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 682-687

  Väänänen, Ari ^a   Ahola, Kirsi ^a   Koskinen, Aki ^a   Pahkin, Krista ^a   Kouvonen, Anne ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DRUG; HEALTH IMPACT; MENTAL HEALTH; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PSYCHOLOGY; REFORM PROCESS; RISK FACTOR; SUICIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATION; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960220412     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2010.126482     Document Type: Article

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