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Understanding the Challenges Facing Occupational Health Services in the Swedish Public Sector
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 According to Swedish Work Environmental Act, all organizations are required to implement Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSM). In support of this and when competence within the employer’s own organization is insufficient, regulations state ...
Lisa Schmidt +2 more
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Factors Affecting Prolonged Working Life for the Older Workforce: the Swedish Case
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The aim of this paper is to uncover some of the mechanisms that could make the older workforce willing and able to stay employed. Our focus is on work-related factors that predict the probability of staying in employment despite entitlement to old-age ...
Tomas Berglund +2 more
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Gender Equality Policy in Sweden: 1970s–2010s
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aim of this article is to give an overview of gender equality policy in Sweden from the 1970s until today. A number of political measures and whether these measures individually, as well as combined, have promoted gender equality and the dual-earner ...
Anita Nyberg
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An Argument and an Outline for a New Employment Scheme
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Liberalism is celebrating triumphs in these years. As faith in the welfare state and Keynesianism began to crack in the 1970s, capitalist principles were revitalised and the old virtues and dogmas were found and dusted.
Henning Hansen +2 more
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Changes in health-related rehabilitation trajectories following a major Norwegian welfare reform [PDF]
, 2023 Background In this study we investigated the health-related rehabilitation trajectories of young Norwegian adults between 2004–2019. The study period is interesting because it overlaps with an extensive welfare system reform that occurred in Norway ...
Wittlund, Sina, Lorentzen, Thomas
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Psychiatric Rehabilitation: An Overview for Rehabilitation Practitioners
, 2019 Mental illness seriously interferes with the individual's ability to participate and perform major life activities. Individuals with serious mental illness may have limited capacity to perform certain tasks and functions such as obtaining gainful ...
Deborah LEE, Xiangli CHEN
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Employment as a Price or a Prize of Equality: A Descriptive Analysis
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 To put Scandinavian employment in perspective, we ask whether wage compression hampers employment rates, or not. We answer by reviewing the most important theoretical arguments and the most informative regularities across countries with different wage ...
Erling Barth, Karl Ove Moene
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Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker +14 more
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Reemployment of Displaced Workers – The Case of a Plant Closing on a Remote Region in Finland
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aims of this article are to examine the reemployment of displaced workers and individual factors that predict reemployment and education, earnings in new jobs, and paths to reemployment.
Arja Jolkkonen +2 more
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, 2007 Objective: To systematically review prospective cohort studies that investigated prognostic factors associated with long-term activity limitations or participation restrictions and productivity after a traumatic brain injury.Data sources: PubMed and ...
Verhagen, Arianne +4 more
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