'Work Ability': A practical model for improving the quality of work, health and wellbeing across the life-course?

Work, Health and Wellbeing: The Challenges of Managing Health at Work

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 187-206

  Maltby, Tony ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

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