Illness-absences of hospital employees.

Energy employees occupations illness compensation program.

Chronic diseases are strongly associated with sickness absences in a sample of Italian public employees.

OBJECTIVES Data on the prevalence of chronic diseases and their relationship with sickness absence in the Italian public employees are rather scarce. Therefore, in the first place, we assessed the distribution of chronic diseases in the employees of the University of Ferrara. As a next step, we investigated the possible associations between each chronic disease and cumulative days of all-cause ...

Hostility and registered sickness absences: a prospective study of municipal employees.

BACKGROUND Prior evidence on the relationship between hostility and minor health problems is limited to cross-sectional self-report studies. In the present study, this relationship was examined prospectively. METHODS Hostility of 1077 municipal employees was measured by a questionnaire survey and minor health problems by using 4-year register-based absence data including medically certificate...

Understanding illness experiences of employees with common mental health disorders.

BACKGROUND Common mental health disorders (CMHDs) are a leading cause of sickness absence. To address this, a Fit for Work Service (FFWS) was introduced in Greater Manchester, UK, in 2010, offering case-managed and multidisciplinary interventions to early-stage sickness absentees experiencing physical health conditions and/or associated psychosocial problems, to enable a speedy return to work. ...

Sufficient Absences

Externalism about psychological kinds is the thesis that certain of a subject's mental states and events are dependent for their individuation on the subject's environment. The thesis opens up the possibility that a subject's mental state and event kinds might vary with variations in the subject's environment, even while her physical properties, including her functional properties and her physi...