Welfare regimes, labour policies and unhealthy psychosocial working conditions: A comparative study with 9917 older employees from 12 European countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 793-799

  Dragano, Nico ^a   Siegrist, Johannes ^a   Wahrendorf, Morten ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABOR POLICY; LIBERALIZATION; LOGISTICS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETIREMENT; SYMPTOM; WELFARE REFORM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; POLICY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD;

AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEPRESSION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EUROPE;

EID: 80052610995     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.098541     Document Type: Article

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