The bright side and dark side of workplace social capital: Opposing effects of gender on overweight among Japanese employees

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kobayashi, Tomoko ^a   Suzuki, Etsuji ^a   Oksanen, Tuula ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Takao, Soshi ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); LIFESTYLE; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP TIME; SOCIAL CAPITAL; UNDERWEIGHT; WORKPLACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84900387923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088084     Document Type: Article

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