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Cumulative exposure to shift work and sickness absence: associations in a five-year historic cohort
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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Re: Amelsvoort et al. “Approaches for predicting long-term sickness absence”
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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Meta-analysis of nursing-related organizational and psychosocial predictors of sickness absence.
BACKGROUND Nursing is a stressful occupation with high rates of sickness absence. To date, there are no meta-analyses that statistically determined the correlates of sickness absence in this population.
Basem Gohar +7 more
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Long term sickness absence [PDF]
Is caused by common conditions and needs managing S ickness absence is a major public health and economic problem. In 2003, 176 million working days were lost; up 10 million on the previous year.1 Each week 1 million people report sick, 3000 of whom will still be away from work at six months.2 Only 20% of people receiving incapacity benefit for more ...
Max, Henderson +2 more
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BACKGROUND Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. As a potential way of improving work time control, it may provide a means to reducing sickness absence in shift work.
J. Turunen +8 more
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Commuting and Sickness Absence [PDF]
We investigate the causal effect of commuting on sickness absence from work using German panel data. To address reverse causation, we use changes in commuting distance for employees who stay with the same employer and who have the same residence during the period of observation. In contrast to previous papers, we do not observe that commuting distances
Lorenz, Olga, Goerke, Laszlo
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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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Coping and sickness absence [PDF]
The aim of this study is to examine the role of coping styles in sickness absence. In line with findings that contrast the reactive-passive focused strategies, problem-solving strategies are generally associated with positive results in terms of well-being and overall health outcomes; our hypothesis is that such strategies are positively related to a ...
van Rhenen, Willem +3 more
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Transitions between sickness absence, work, unemployment, and disability in Denmark 2004–2008
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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Employees in health and social care are often simultaneously exposed to both physical and psychosocial challenges that may increase their risk for sickness absence.
M. Helgesson +4 more
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