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What We’re Missing

AERA Open, 2017
For schools and teachers to help students develop knowledge and skills, students need to show up to class. Yet absenteeism is prevalent, especially in secondary schools.
Camille R. Whitney, Jing Liu
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The association of adolescent spinal-pain-related absenteeism with early adulthood work absenteeism: A six-year follow-up data from a population-based cohort

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2018
OBJECTIVES: Spinal (ie, back and neck) pain often develops as early as during adolescence and can set a trajectory for later life. However, whether early-life spinal-pain-related behavioral responses of missing school/work are predictive of future work ...
Pieter Coenen, Anne Smith, Peter Kent, Mark Harris, Steven J Linton, Glenn Pransky, Darren Beales, Peter O’Sullivan, Leon Straker   +8 more
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The lost productivity cost of absenteeism due to COVID-19 in health care workers in Iran: a case study in the hospitals of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Human resources management plays an important role in social development and economic growth. Absence from work due to health problems can make obstacles to the growth of economy. This study conducted aimed to estimate the absenteeism costs of
Ahmad Faramarzi, Javad Javan-Noughabi, Seyed Saeed Tabatabaee, Ali Asghar Najafpoor, Aziz Rezapour   +4 more
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Exploring Patterns of Absenteeism from Prekindergarten Through Early Elementary School and Their Associations With Children’s Academic Outcomes

AERA Open
Using statewide administrative data from a sample of children enrolled in public prekindergarten (pre-K) programs in Massachusetts, I examined heterogeneity in children’s absenteeism patterns from pre-K to Grade 3 and linked these patterns to their Grade
Wendy Wei
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Work absenteeism across economic activity sectors and its association with COVID-19-like illness prevalence in the Netherlands, 2020–2023

Epidemics
The monitoring of work absenteeism can inform pandemic decision making, besides the surveillance of disease end-points like mortality and intensive care bed occupancy. For instance, high disease prevalence accompanied by elevated levels of absenteeism in
Hester Korthals Altes, Jan Van De Kassteele, Bram Wisse, Maria Xiridou, Albert Jan Van Hoek, Jacco Wallinga   +5 more
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Gender differences in the longitudinal association between obesity, and disability with workplace absenteeism in the Australian working population.

PLoS ONE, 2020
BACKGROUND:Excess weight can increase absenteeism of workers and can have a negative influence on their productivity. Current evidence on this association is mostly based on cross-sectional data and there is little evidence concerning the longitudinal ...
Syed Afroz Keramat, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Stuart J H Biddle   +3 more
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Relationship between orofacial pain and absenteeism among workers in Southern Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Oral Sciences, 2015
Aim: To verify the relationship between orofacial pain and absenteeism in workers of slaughter and meat processing industries in the Southern region of Brazil.
Anderson Nardi, Edgard Michel Crosato, Maria Gabriela Haye Biazevic, Edgard Crosato, Eduardo Pizzatto, Dagmar de Paula Queluz   +5 more
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Occupational disease and absenteeism in the workers in one Hospital in Lima -Perú

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2021
Introduction: Absenteeism from work in public or private institutions is classified as one of the main labor problems. Objective: To determine the association between occupational disease and work absenteeism at the Hospital Policial Augusto Belisario ...
Catherine Amparo Suárez Egoávil
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Investigating the self-reported reasons for absenteeism of nurses working in a facility for intellectually disabled persons in the Western Cape [PDF]

, 2020
Magister Curationis - MCurBackground: Absenteeism is a worldwide problem in health care facilities. Absenteeism results in low standard of care and in the dissatisfaction of clients as routine care activities tend to be disrupted due to the shortage of ...
Dinizulu, Nompumelelo Florence
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Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City

BMC Public Health, 2005
Background School absenteeism data may have utility as an early indicator of disease outbreaks, however their value should be critically examined. This paper describes an evaluation of the utility of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection ...
Mostashari Farzad, Heffernan Richard, Besculides Melanie, Weiss Don   +3 more
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