Stress at Work among Electric Utility Workers
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Stress at work among electric utility workers.
In the last decades there was an increase in stress at work and its effects on workers' health. These issues are still little studied in the electric utility sector. This study aims to evaluate factors associated with stress at work and to verify its associations with health status among workers of an electric company in São Paulo State, Brazil. A cross-sectional study was conducted with 474 su...
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عنوان ژورنال: Industrial Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0019-8366,1880-8026
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.47.55