Asylum Physicians and Commitment Certificates

Medicolegal certificates in investigations of asylum applications.

Physicians, sick leave certificates, and patients' subsequent employment outcomes.

I analyze how general practitioners (GPs) indirectly affect their patients' employment outcomes by deciding the length of sick leaves. I use an instrumental variables framework where spell durations are identified through supply-side certification measures. I find that a day of sick leave certified only because the worker's GP has a high propensity to certify sick leaves decreases the employmen...

The Truth from the Body: Medical Certificates as Ultimate Evidence for Asylum Seekers

Whether through traditional law or modern torture, the body has always been a privileged site on which to demonstrate the evidence of power. But for immigrants, the poor, and, more generally, the dominated—all of whom have to prove their eligibility to certain social rights—it has also become the place that displays the evidence of truth. In France, as immigration control increases, asylum seek...

Satisfaction, commitment, and psychological well-being among HMO physicians.

OBJECTIVE To identify the factors that predict professional satisfaction, organizational commitment, and burnout among physicians working for health maintenance organizations (HMOs). METHODS AND PARTICIPANTS Data came from mail surveys of Kaiser Permanente physicians in the Northwest and Ohio regions. The average response rate was 80% (n = 608). RESULTS The single most important predictor f...

The organizational commitment of emergency physicians in Spanish public hospitals

Background. There are not too many studies that deal with the organizational commitment of emergency physicians. This commitment has been shown to impact organizational performance. The aim of this paper is to analyse the degree of commitment of the emergency physicians in Spanish public hospitals and the factors that may influence it. Method. Online survey using SurveyMonkey to emergency physi...