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References to accompany the July 2017 issue of Kai Tiaki Nursing New Zealand


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  4. UK Health and Safety Executive (2016). Work related stress, anxiety and depression in Great Britain 2016.  Accessed June 2017. http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causdis/stress/stress.pdf?pdf=stress
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  9. Sapolsky, R. (2015). Stress and the brain: individual variability and the inverted-U. Nature Neuroscience. 18(10): 1344-1346.
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  30. Koelsch, S. et al. (2016). The impact of acute stress on hormones and cytokines, and how their recovery is affected by music-evoked mood. Scientific Reports. 6: 23008. Accessed June 2017 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23008
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