Need for more individual-level meta-analyses in social epidemiology: Example of job strain and coronary heart disease

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-2

  Kivimäki, Mika ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

meta analysis; research design; social epidemiology

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; META-ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; WORKING CONDITIONS;

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JOB STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RESEARCH; REVIEW; SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS;

AGE FACTORS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871739349     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kws407     Document Type: Review

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