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Gender differences in long term sickness absence [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Purpose Sickness absence is a major public health problem, given its high cost and negative impact on employee well-being. Understanding sickness absence duration and recovery rates among different groups is useful to develop effective strategies for ...
Sheila Timp, Nicky van Foreest, Corné Roelen   +2 more
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Screening for the risk on long-term sickness absence [PDF]

Journal of Public Health Research, 2018
Background: Long-term sickness absence is a growing concern in Belgium and other European countries. Since 2017, Belgian physicians of the sickness funding organisations are required to assess the re-integration possibilities within the first two months ...
Kaat Goorts, Sofie Vandenbroeck, Dorina Rusu, Marc Du Bois, Lode Godderis   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Workplace discrimination as risk factor for long-term sickness absence: Longitudinal analyses of onset and changes in workplace adversity. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2021
Workplace discrimination may affect the health of the exposed employees, but it is not known whether workplace discrimination is also associated with an increased risk of long-term sickness absence.
Alice Clark, Sari Stenholm, Jaana Pentti, Paula Salo, Theis Lange, Eszter Török, Tianwei Xu, Jesper Fabricius, Tuula Oksanen, Mika Kivimäki, Jussi Vahtera, Naja Hulvej Rod   +11 more
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Factors Associated with Long-Term Sickness Absence Due to Mental Disorders: A Cohort Study of 7.112 Patients during the Spanish Economic Crisis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
BACKGROUND:Mental health problems are very common and often lead to prolonged sickness absence, having serious economic repercussions for most European countries.
Eva Real, Lluís Jover, Ricard Verdaguer, Antoni Griera, Cinto Segalàs, Pino Alonso, Fernando Contreras, Antoni Arteman, José M Menchón   +8 more
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Parametric hazard rate models for long-term sickness absence [PDF]

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2008
In research on the time to onset of sickness absence and the duration of sickness absence episodes, Cox proportional hazard models are in common use. However, parametric models are to be preferred when time in itself is considered as independent variable.
Koopmans, Petra C., Roelen, Corne A. M., Groothoff, Johan W.   +2 more
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Re: Amelsvoort et al. “Approaches for predicting long-term sickness absence” [PDF]

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2015
We would like to thank Van Amelsvoort et al (1) for the interest in our study (2) and take the opportunity to clarify here that none of the workers were sick-listed when they participated in the baseline health survey.
Lianne S Schouten, Catelijne I Joling, Joost WJ van der Gulden, Martijn W Heymans, Ute Bültmann, Corné AM Roelen   +5 more
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Management of Long Term Sickness Absence: A Systematic Realist Review [PDF]

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 2012
The increasing impact and costs of long term sickness absence have been well documented. However, the diversity and complexity of interventions and of the contexts in which these take place makes a traditional review problematic. Therefore, we undertook a systematic realist review to identify the dominant programme theories underlying best practice, to
Higgins, Angela, O'Halloran, Peter, Porter, Sam   +2 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Alcohol use and sickness absence due to all causes and mental- or musculoskeletal disorders: a nationally representative study [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Previous studies have not distinguished between different alcohol-use histories, which could have contributed to the current inconsistent evidence regarding the relationship between alcohol use and subsequent sickness absence. We thus examined
Leena Kaila-Kangas, Aki Koskinen, Päivi Leino-Arjas, Marianna Virtanen, Tommi Härkänen, Tea Lallukka   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Annual risk of long-term sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders across the lifespan and the role of physical activity and insomnia symptoms: the HUNT Study [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Background The risk of long-term sickness absence due to musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders could be driven by sleep problems and physical inactivity. However, it is not well explored if these associations differ across the lifespan.
Karoline Moe, Eivind Schjelderup Skarpsno, Tom Ivar Lund Nilsen, Paul Jarle Mork, Paulo Ferreira, Lene Aasdahl   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Predicting long-term sickness absence among retail workers after four days of sick-listing. [PDF]

Scand J Work Environ Health, 2022
This study tested and validated an existing tool for its ability to predict the risk of long-term (ie, ≥6 weeks) sickness absence (LTSA) after four days of sick-listing.A 9-item tool is completed online on the fourth day of sick-listing. The tool was tested in a sample (N=13 597) of food retail workers who reported sick between March and May 2017.
Roelen CAM, Speklé EM, Lissenberg-Witte BI, Heymans MW, van Rhenen W, Schaafsma FG.   +5 more
europepmc   +5 more sources