Employee perceived barriers to participation in worksite health promotion

Journal of Public Health (Germany)

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 23-31

  Nöhammer, Elisabeth ^a   Stummer, Harald ^a   Schusterschitz, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Barriers; Employee participation; Worksite health promotion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; EMPLOYEE; EMPLOYER; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VARIMAX ROTATION;

EID: 84899474882     PISSN: 09431853     EISSN: 16132238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10389-013-0586-3     Document Type: Article

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