More than Just Workload-Personnel's Perspective on Workload at the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee: A Qualitative

Pablo M Stegerhoek1, Jesse van der Zande, Herman IJzerman

  • 1From the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Movement Science, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (P.M.S., E.A.L.M.V., P.P.F.M.K., C.B.); Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Academic Medical Centre Amsterdam, the Netherlands (P.M.S., J.v.d.Z., P.P.F.M.K.); and Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, Health Care Section, Plein-Kalvermarkt-Complex, Den Haag, the Netherlands (P.M.S., J.v.d.Z., H.I.J.).

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