The influence of workload and health behavior on job satisfaction of general practitioners

Family Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 95-101

  Goetz, Katja ^a   Musselmann, Berthold ^b   Szecsenyi, Joachim ^a   Joos, Stefanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORKLOAD;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873515778     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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