BACKGROUND Measures of socio-economic position, such as education, occupational class and income, are well-known determinants of ill-health, injury and sickness absence. The aim was to analyse socio-economic and occupational determinants of work injury absence and their contribution to overall socio-economic inequalities in all-cause sickness absence. METHODS A register-based follow-up study ...

PURPOSE The aim of the study is to identify work-related determinants of return to work (RTW) of employees who are on long-term sickness absence. METHOD The study was based on a sample of 926 employees on sickness absence (maximum duration of 12 weeks). The employees filled out a baseline questionnaire and were subsequently followed until the 10th month after listing sick. Cox proportional ha...

BACKGROUND It is unclear when occupational health providers should re-evaluate workers after mental health-related absences from work. AIMS To investigate the time to recurrence of mental health-related absences, stratified by International Classification of Diseases-Tenth Revision (ICD-10) diagnostic categories. METHODS A 10-year observational study of workers employed at a steel mill. Sic...