Health issues amongst call center employees, an emerging occupational group in India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 175-177

  Raja, Jeyapal Dinesh ^a   Bhasin, Sanjiv Kumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Anxiety; call centers; depression; occupational health; sleep quality; stress; youngsters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905820325     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.137156     Document Type: Article

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