Violence and psychological distress among police officers and security guards

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 400-406

  Leino, T M ^a   Selin, R ^a   Summala, H ^b   Virtanen, M ^a  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Distress; Police officers; Security guards; Violence.

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052920881     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr080     Document Type: Article

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