Cultural leisure activities, recovery and work engagement among hospital employees

Industrial Health

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 254-262

  Tuisku, Katinka ^a   Virtanen, Marianna ^b   De Bloom, Jessica ^c   Kinnunen, Ulla ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Arts; Cultural activity; Health promotion; Hospital employees; Leisure; Occupational wellbeing; Recovery; Work engagement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CULTURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84973568993     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.2015-0124     Document Type: Article

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