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Job strain and clinical depression – authors’ reply

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2017

I. E. H. Madsen*
Affiliation:
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
R. Rugulies
Affiliation:
National Research Centre for the Working Environment, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark Department of Public Health and Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, DK-1353 Copenhagen, Denmark
M. Kivimäki
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
*
*Address for correspondence: Dr I. E. H. Madsen, Ph.D., National Research Centre for the Working Environment, Lersø Parkallé 105, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark. (Email: ihm@nrcwe.dk)

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