Overtime work as a predictor of major depressive episode: A 5-year follow-up of the whitehall ii study

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Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Virtanen, Marianna ^a   Stansfeld, Stephen A ^b   Fuhrer, Rebecca ^c   Ferrie, Jane E ^d,e   Kivimäki, Mika ^d  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; JOB STRESS; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WORKING TIME; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84856244944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030719     Document Type: Article

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