Sickness Absence Due to Specific Mental Diagnoses and All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Cohort Study of 4.9 Million Inhabitants of Sweden

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Mittendorfer Rutz, Ellenor ^a   Kjeldgård, Linnea ^a   Runeson, Bo ^a   Perski, Aleksander ^b   Melchior, Maria ^c   Head, Jenny ^d   Alexanderson, Kristina ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; MENTAL DISEASE; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SUICIDE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PENSIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866677851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045788     Document Type: Article

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