Facilitating Return to Work

Communication style: help or hindrance in facilitating return to work?

'Unless people believe they can produce desired effects by their actions, they have little incentive to act' Albert Bandura, Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control. Bandura's theory states that 'Perceived self-efficacy refers to beliefs in one's capabilities to organise and execute the courses of action required to produce given attainments' [1]. In the workplace setting, self-efficacy is an in...

Return to Work in COVID-19: Review of Current Guidelines

Background and aims: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is mainly a respiratory disease which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Virus. The outbreak first began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and then expanded globally. COVID-19 can result in illness ranging from mild to severe. However, some of the affected individuals might be asymptomatic. Symptoms of the disease may appear in as few as 2 days...

Return to work.

Return to Work

nor is it progressive to keep him indefinitely in a sheltered occupation: though both these alternatives are better than no job at all, and may be temporary expedients. This is not simply a matter of the individual's welfare: it is of vital concern to the community too, for the wastage of productivity from neurotic illness due both to absence from work and to inefficiency at work costs the coun...

epigastric and umbilical hernia; work relatedness and return to work.

abdominal wall hernia is common but reliable scientific data about its work relatedness is very limited and inconsistent. in this paper, a less common type of abdominal wall hernia in a 30 year old male worker is presented with recurrence after first surgery when he returned to work. in contrast with almost all kinds of hernia, a lifelong limitation for heavy lifting was recommended. it seems t...