Do psychosocial work factors and social relations exert independent effects on sickness absence? A six year prospective study of the GAZEL cohort.

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Published in J Epidemiol Community Health on April 01, 2003

Authors

M Melchior1, I Niedhammer, L F Berkman, M Goldberg

Author Affiliations

1: Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Boston, MA, USA. mmelchio@hsph.harvard.edu

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