Industrial Accidents Sickness and Other Absences

[Social security in industrial accidents, occupational and other diseases].

Interaction of job disamenities , job satisfaction , and sickness absences :

This paper explores the potential role of adverse working conditions in the determination of workers’ sickness absences. Our data contain detailed information on the prevalence of job disamenities at the workplace from a representative sample of Finnish workers. The results from reduced-form models reveal that workers facing adverse working conditions tend to have a greater number of sickness a...

Work-related sickness absences and mandatory occupational health surveillance.

BACKGROUND To prevent work-related ill-health, selection of workers for mandatory occupational health surveillance should be based on the actual risk of work-related disease. AIMS (i) To determine the proportion of sick-listed workers with self-reported work-related health problems not under mandatory occupational health surveillance. (ii) To determine whether self-reported work-related sickn...

Social Factors of Sickness Absences and the Significance of the Nature-culture Interplay in Coping

CONFLICT OF INTEREST none declared. AIMS The aim of this study was to focus on and to discuss how social factors influence sickness absence. There were two aims of this study: a) To explore and reveal the absentees experiences and perceptions of sickness absence in daily life b) To explore and reveal the absentees own perceptions and experiences of coping while being on sickness absence. Meth...

[Fractures of the toe in industrial accidents].