Open AccessUsing Sickness Absence Records to Predict Future Depression in a Working Population: Prospective Findings From the GAZEL Cohort
Author(s) -
Maria Melchior,
Jane E. Ferrie,
Kristina Alexanderson,
Marcel Goldberg,
Mika Kivimäki,
Archana SinghManoux,
Jussi Vahtera,
Hugo Westerlund,
Marie Zins,
Jenny Head
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2008.142273
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , medicine , marital status , demography , confidence interval , odds ratio , cohort , population , cohort study , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
We tested the hypothesis that sickness absence from work predicts workers' risk of later depression.
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