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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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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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Virtual Reality Sickness Mitigation Methods: A Comparative Study in a Racing Game [PDF]
, 2021 Using virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays (HMDs) can induce VR sickness. VR sickness can cause strong discomfort, decrease users' presence and enjoyment, especially in games, shorten the duration of the VR experience, and can even pose health risks.
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background There is inconsistent evidence that long working hours and night work are risk factors for sickness absence, but few studies have considered variation in the length of exposure time window as a potential source of mixed findings.
Laura Peutere +7 more
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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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Employment Protection and Sickness Absence [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection and sickness absence among employees is examined.
Martin Olsson, Martin Olsson
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BMC Public Health, 2017 Background Workplace stressors, such as bullying, are strongly related to subsequent long-term sickness absence, but little is known of the possible physiological mechanisms linking workplace stressors and sickness absence.
Matias Brødsgaard Grynderup +12 more
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THE MANAGEMENT OF SICKNESS ABSENCE [PDF]
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2001 Sickness absence, or as it can be defined more precisely, absence from work that is attributed to sickness by the employee and accepted as such by the employer, remains high on the agenda for governments in the European Union (EU). Over the last decade most EU governments have implemented legislation that changes social security payments for the ...
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Transitions between sickness absence, work, unemployment, and disability in Denmark 2004–2008
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2012 OBJECTIVES: Studies of labor market outcomes like sickness absence are usually restricted to a single outcome. This paper investigates the use of multi-state models for studying multiple transitions between sick-listing, work, unemployment, and ...
Jacob Pedersen +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 ObjectivesThis study aims to assess the association between daily temperature and sickness absence episodes in the Mediterranean province of Barcelona between 2012 and 2015, according to sociodemographic and occupational characteristics.MethodsEcological
Mireia Utzet +11 more
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