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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2010 Background Musculoskeletal disorders are common and costly disorders to workers compensation and motor accident insurance systems and are a leading contributor to the burden of ill-health. In Australia, vocational rehabilitation is provided to workers to
McLeod Rebecca +8 more
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Strategic Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how strategic renewal, driven by the interaction among technological, marketing, and organizational innovation, enhances firms' economic performance. Using a panel dataset of 8871 Spanish firms covering the period 2009–2016, we provide empirical evidence on the different effects of each type of innovation and their ...
Beatriz Forés +3 more
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Would you train me with my mental illness? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment [PDF]
The low employment among people with disabilities in general, and mental disorders in particular, generates high costs to the society. This raises the need to develop effective vocational rehabilitation methods.
Deuchert, Eva +2 more
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Strategies Used by Employment Service Providers in the Job Development Process: Are they consistent with what employers want? [PDF]
, 2011 Historically, the role of job developers employed in the state/federal vocational rehabilitation program and the larger network of community-based rehabilitation programs has been to identify and secure paid employment for individuals with disabilities ...
Ellen Fabian +3 more
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PM&R, EarlyView.Abstract Background Late effects of polio (LEoP) are defined as new symptoms, for example, muscle weakness, fatigue, and pain, occurring many years after an acute polio infection. These impairments can lead to difficulties performing everyday activities (ie, activity limitations) that can reduce a person's ability to take part in society (ie, perceived
Nilla Andersson +3 more
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The Workforce Investment Act and the One-Stop Delivery System [PDF]
, 2013 [Excerpt] The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA; P.L. 105-220) is the primary federal program that supports workforce development. WIA includes five titles: • Title I—Workforce Investment Systems—provides job training and related services to ...
Bradley, David H
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PM&R, EarlyView.Abstract Background Altered interoception, the sense of signals from inside the body, is linked to chronic pain. No studies to date have examined whether interoceptive sensibility, one's self‐reported beliefs about the body and tendencies to be internally focused, changes following participation in an interdisciplinary pain management program (IPMP ...
Stephanie Voss +4 more
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Policy and Practice Brief: PASS: SSI’s Plan for Achieving Self-Support; This Self-Directed Vocational Rehabilitation Plan is an Alternative Funding Source to Support a Range of Work Goals [PDF]
, 2003 This primer provides an in-depth overview of the Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS), a Supplemental Security Income work incentive program. Detailed is how the PASS can support self-directed vocational rehabilitation and its impact on an individual’s
Lopez-Soto, Edwin +1 more
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo +1 more
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Does privatisation of vocational rehabilitation improve labour market opportunities? Evidence from a field experiment in Sweden [PDF]
, 2012 This paper analyses if privatisation of vocational rehabilitation can improve labour market opportunities for individuals on long-term sickness absence.
Jönsson, Lisa, Skogman Thoursie, Peter
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