Is Work Beneficial to Good Health?

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 296-311

  Gagin, Roni ^a   Shinan Altman, Shiri ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

health; hospitalized patients; insecurity at work; unemployment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONS; PATIENTS; PERSONNEL DELEGATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL WORK; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNEMPLOYMENT; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84859631271     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2011.638420     Document Type: Article

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