Racial disparities in job strain among American and immigrant long-term care workers

International Nursing Review

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 237-244

  Hurtado, D A ^a   Sabbath, E L ^a,f,g   Ertel, K A ^a   Buxton, O M ^c,d   Berkman, L F ^b,e  

^a Kellogg Health Scholars Program   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^f UMS 011   (France)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Emigrants and Immigrants; Long term Care; Nursing Homes; Nursing Staff; Race Relations; United States of America; Work Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MANPOWER; MENTAL STRESS; MIGRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NURSING; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING HOME; NURSING STAFF; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICA; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; NURSES' AIDES; NURSING HOMES; NURSING STAFF; NURSING, PRACTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEST INDIES;

EID: 84861222852     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2011.00948.x     Document Type: Article

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