Repeated job strain and the risk of depression: longitudinal analyses from the Whitehall II study.

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Published in Am J Public Health on October 18, 2012

Authors

Stephen A Stansfeld1, Martin J Shipley, Jenny Head, Rebecca Fuhrer

Author Affiliations

1: Centre for Psychiatry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, UK. s.a.stansfeld@qmul.ac.uk

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