Illness narratives and chronic patients' sustainable employability: The impact of positive work stories.
The number of workers with a chronic disease is steadily growing in industrialized countries. To cope with and to give meaning to their illness, patients construct illness narratives, which are widely shared across patient societies, personal networks and the media. This study investigates the influ...
Main Authors: | Inge M Brokerhof, Jan Fekke Ybema, P Matthijs Bal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2020-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228581 |
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