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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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School absenteeism data for surveillance purposes: a proxy for acute respiratory infection rates

BMC Public Health
Background School absenteeism data have potential as real-time public health surveillance tool to monitor infectious diseases. This study evaluates the validity and usefulness of school absenteeism data for application in acute respiratory illness (ARI ...
C. M. de Korne, M. Hooiveld, A. J. van Hoek, P. C.J.L Bruijning-Verhagen   +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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An investigation into the association between role stress and absenteeism among nurses in the South African public health sector [PDF]

, 2006
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-87).Absenteeism in the nursing profession poses a serious threat to South African health care institutions (Samdi, 2000; McHugh, 2001). This research investigated the association between role stress, and the
Behrman, Melanie
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The complexity of absenteeism and turnover intention: Direct, mediation and moderation effects [PDF]

, 2008
Absenteeism and turnover in the workplace are complex phenomena that have implications for organisations and individuals alike. This study investigated the relationships of attitudinal factors with absenteeism and turnover intentions at a large ...
Vogelzang, Ciska (Francisca Monica)
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Count Data Models With Variance Of Unknown Form: An Application To A Hedonic Model Of Worker Absenteeism [PDF]

, 1997
We examine an econometric model of counts of worker absences due to illness in a sluggishly adjusting hedonic labor market. We compare three estimators that parameterize the conditional variance--least squares, Poisson, and negative binomial pseudo ...
Delgado, Miguel A., Kniesner, T.J., Miguel A. Delgado, Kniefner, Thomas J., Kniesner, Thomas J., Delgado, M.A., Thomas J. Kniesner   +6 more
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