Reducing sickness absence in occupational settings

Reducing sickness absence in occupational settings.

The implementation of occupational health guidelines principles for reducing sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders.

BACKGROUND Occupational health guidelines recommend a biopsychosocial approach to manage sickness absence due to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), with a primary focus on early intervention through provision of a supportive network. AIMS To investigate the implementation of a guidelines-based intervention (early contact of absentees; addressing psychosocial obstacles; offering temporary modif...

Occupational rewards relate to sickness absence frequency but not duration.

Work stress is an important problem that shifted sickness absence research to the psychosocial work environment at the expense of physical or chemical hazards. Most studies investigated the psychosocial work environment using the Demand-Control model. However, this model does not consider coping styles which are important in absenteeism. The Effort-Reward Imbalance model takes coping into accou...

Interrelationships between education, occupational class, income and sickness absence.

BACKGROUND Socio-economic position measures, such as education, occupational class and income, are well-known determinants of health. However, previous studies have not paid attention to mutual interrelationships between these socio-economic position measures and medically confirmed sickness absence. METHODS The study is a register-based study. The participants were municipal employees of the...

Severe occupational hand eczema, job stress and cumulative sickness absence.

BACKGROUND Stress is known to activate or exacerbate dermatoses, but the relationships between chronic stress, job-related stress and sickness absence among occupational hand eczema (OHE) patients are inadequately understood. AIMS To see whether chronic stress or burnout symptoms were associated with cumulative sickness absence in patients with OHE and to determine which factors predicted sic...