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Revista DorBACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Fear of movement and re/injury (kinesiophobia) is factor associated to chronic pain and incapacity. Since elderly population is highly affected by chronic health problems followed by pain, especially musculoskeletal problems ...
Natalia Santos da Silva +2 more
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Envelhecimento activo: Complementariedades e contradições
Forum Sociológico, 2007 O envelhecimento activo tem sido abordado a partir de duas perspectivas bem distintas. Uma perspectiva que faz da participação económica das pessoas mais velhas a pedra angular para a própria sustentabilidade financeira do Sistema de Segurança Social e ...
Ana Paula Gil
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A powerful intervention: general practitioners' use of sickness certification in depression [PDF]
, 2012 <b>Background</b> Depression is frequently cited as the reason for sickness absence, and it is estimated that sickness certificates are issued in one third of consultations for depression. Previous research has considered GP views of sickness
A Mowlam +33 more
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Journal of Modern ScienceObjectives Within the framework of the research project entitled “Usefulness of a robotic companion in light of determinants affecting the quality of life of persons with limited mobility”, a survey was conducted among a group of 1,064 respondents aged ...
Katarzyna Jaworska +2 more
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Ability and Volitional Incapacity [PDF]
, 2016 The conditional analysis of ability faces familiar counterexamples involving cases of volitional incapacity. An interesting response to the problem of volitional incapacity is to try to explain away the responses elicited by such counterexamples by ...
Gilabert, Pablo, Southwood, Nicholas
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Welfare reform in the UK: 1997 - 2007 [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents a tour of welfare reform in the UK since the last change of government, summarising the most important changes in active labour market policies, and in measures intended to strengthen financial incentives to work.
Brewer, M.
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Revista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2018 Art. 12 of the United Nations Convention of New York from 2006 on the Rights of persons with disabilities calls for the protection of the functionally different person to be personalized and to respect to the maximum extent his/her sphere of autonomy ...
Leire Imaz Zubiaur
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Nonspecific chronic low back pain and incapacity level: influence of walking performance
Revista Dor, 2017 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Chronic low back pain syndrome promotes several functional losses which impact quality of life of patients, and walking is one of the most impaired functions.
Alberito Rodrigo de Carvalho +6 more
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Social Science Research Network, 2016 This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity (TWI), i. e. sickness absence and permanent work incapacity (PWI), i. e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence.
Nabanita Datta Gupta +2 more
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