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The U.S. study of work incapacity and reintegration.
In many countries, including the United States, the number of persons being awarded long-term or permanent disability benefits has risen dramatically in recent years. Government agencies, advocates for the disabled, and others are looking for ways to help persons with disabilities return to the labor force. The Work Incapacity and Reintegration (WIR) Study was developed to address that issue. T...
متن کاملIncapacity for work among the insured population of Great Britain.
The Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance usually receives between eight and nine million new claims for sickness and injury benefits in a year and records certified incapacity for work totalling nearly 300 million days. Detailed analyses are made from the records of spells of incapacity for work in respect of 5 per cent. of the insured population. These analyses are designed to show the ...
متن کاملExploring NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity for work.
18 OccupatiOnal health The guidance on sickness absence suggests initial enquiries after employees have been off work for 2–6 weeks to determine the reason for the sickness, the prognosis, any barriers to returning to work – actual or perceived – and what help may be needed. Occupational health nurses are ideally placed to carry out these actions, and to undertake further assessment of the pati...
متن کاملMental health and incapacity legislation
I enjoyed the article by Dawson & Szmukler (2006) because I like to keep up to date with legal and ethical issues in mental health. However, their claim for equivalence between mental and physical diseases sits uneasily with scientific papers published in the Journal. Shaw et al (2006) found that schizophrenia had a prevalence of 5% in perpetrators of homicide, compared with 1% in the general p...
متن کاملThe work incapacity and reintegration study: results of the initial survey conducted in the United States.
The United States and six other countries (Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Israel, and the Netherlands) are participating in a cross-national study of work incapacity and reintegration under the auspices of the International Social Security Association. The purpose of the study is to identify those medical and nonmedical interventions that are most successful in helping persons disabled due t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0959-8138,1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39535.460289.1f