The bright side and dark side of workplace social capital: opposing effects of gender on overweight among Japanese employees.

BACKGROUND: A growing number of studies have sought to examine the health associations of workplace social capital; however, evidence of associations with overweight is sparse. We examined the association between individual perceptions of workplace social capital and overweight among Japanese male a...

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Main Authors: Tomoko Kobayashi, Etsuji Suzuki, Tuula Oksanen, Ichiro Kawachi, Soshi Takao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3909277?pdf=render