Higher-status occupations and breast cancer: A life-course stress approach

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 89, Issue , 2013, Pages 53-61

  Pudrovska, Tetyana ^a   Carr, Deborah ^b   McFarland, Michael ^c   Collins, Caitlyn ^d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Gender; Job authority; Life course; Occupation; Stress; USA

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

CANCER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GENDER; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LIFE STRESS; MALE; MANAGER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OVARIECTOMY; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WISCONSIN;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84878426951     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.04.013     Document Type: Article

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