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Sickness absence: A gender-focused review [PDF]
Psychology, Health & Medicine, 2009 Women compared with men are generally considered to have higher sickness absence rates. Also determinants of sickness absent may differ between the sexes, a relevant area of knowledge for organizations that want to fine-tune particular measures to particular determinants. The present article offers a review of the literature regarding the relationships
Bekker, M.H.J. +2 more
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Determinants of Employee Absence Differentiation
Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2018 The aim of this article is to examine the changes in the sickness absence rate in Poland in 2005–2015 (in the period for which statistical data allowing for the calculation of this ratio are available) and, first of all, its territorial differentiation ...
Małgorzata Striker, Ewa Kusideł
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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Studies of consequences of sickness absence such as health and well-being have been rare whereas risk factors for sickness absence have been studied extensively.
Annina Ropponen +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Mental disorders are common diagnostic causes for longer sickness absence and disability retirement in OECD-countries. Short sickness absence spells are also common, and neither trivial for health and work ability.
Hilla Sumanen +3 more
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Sickness absence in doctors [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2002 Kivimaki et al 1 undertook research to identify some determinants of sickness absence in Finnish hospital physicians between 1997 and 1998. This was a questionnaire survey sent to 816 physicians and a control group of 542 senior nurses employed in one of 11 hospitals in Finland. Social circumstances, work characteristics, and various measures of health
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Cumulative exposure to shift work and sickness absence: associations in a five-year historic cohort
BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Exposure to shift work has been associated with negative health consequences, although the association between shift work and sickness absence remains unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate associations between cumulative exposure to
Alwin van Drongelen +4 more
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Gender equality in sickness absence tolerance: Attitudes and norms of sickness absence are not different for men and women. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Previous research offers limited understanding as to why sickness absence is higher among women than among men, but attitudes and norms have been suggested as plausible explanations of this gender gap.
Gøril Kvamme Løset +5 more
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Sickness Absence in Teachers [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 1962 This paper is based on the records of 738 male teachers and 1,684 female teachers employed by Edinburgh Corporation during the academic year September 1, 1954 to July 31, 1955. The amount and distribution of sickness absence has been assessed by age and sex; and comparisons have been made with similar rates in the academic year 1950/51 to determine ...
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Absenteeism and sickness absence [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1991 Summary The majority of time lost from work as a result of absenteeism is classified as due to sickness although only a small proportion of the total can be regarded as a result of unfitness for work for medical reasons. An occupational health service assists a business in minimizing absenteeism by promoting an early return to work ...
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Re: Amelsvoort et al. “Approaches for predicting long-term sickness absence”
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 +5 more
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