Employment status and health after privatisation in white collar civil servants: prospective cohort study.

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Published in BMJ on March 17, 2001

Authors

J E Ferrie1, P Martikainen, M J Shipley, M G Marmot, S A Stansfeld, G D Smith

Author Affiliations

1: International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London Medical School, London WC1E 6BT.

Associated clinical trials:

Whitehall II - Social and Occupational Influences On Health and Illness | NCT00005680

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