How can qualitative studies help explain the role of context and process of interventions on occupational safety and health and on mental health at work?

Improving Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Addressing Process and Context

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 135-162

  Baril Gingras, Geneviève ^a   Bellemare, Marie ^a   Brisson, Chantal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

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EID: 84894058058     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203723494     Document Type: Chapter

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