The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption

Health Economics Review

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Azagba, Sunday ^a   Sharaf, Mesbah F ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Job strain; Job stress; Latent class model; Smoking intensity; Unobserved heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

AGE; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CANADIAN NATIONAL POPULATION HEALTH SURVEY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PREFERENCE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCOME; JOB STRESS; LATENT CLASS MODEL; LATENT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CONTROL; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS;

EID: 84971350012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21911991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2191-1991-1-15     Document Type: Article

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