The first part of this essay looks at the care of the sick poor in one small London parish, St Bartholomew's Exchange (see map, figure 1), between the 1580s and the 1670s. The second part puts some question-marks around the interpretation that I give to the parish material. The care of the sick poor appears to have analogies with the later care of the sick poor in hospitals, but in the second p...

Using a discrete choice one-factor model, we estimate mean treatment parameters and distributional treatment parameters to analyze the effects of degree of sick leave on the probability of full recovery of lost work capacity for employed and unemployed individuals, respectively. Our results indicate that one year after the sick leave spell started, the average potential impact of part-time sick...

OBJECTIVES Research has shown that individuals reporting a low level of adjustment latitude, defined as having few possibilities to temporarily adjust work demands to illness, have a higher risk of sick leave. To what extent lack of adjustment latitude influences the individual when making the decision to take sick leave is unknown. We hypothesize that ill individuals are more likely to take si...

OBJECTIVES To analyze the duration of non-work-related sick leave due to anxiety disorders and to identify demographic, occupational and clinical variables that may contribute to its prediction. METHODS We performed a prospective cohort study of 1,161 workers with an episode of non-work-related sick leave due to an anxiety disorder, belonging to the insured population of a mutual insurance co...

OBJECTIVE: Giving recommended immunizations during sick visits for minor and acute illness such as acute otitis media has long been an American Academy of Pediatrics/Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice recommendation. An addition to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy in 2010 advised considering whether giving immunizations at the sick visit would discouragemaking upmissed well-ba...

Emergency physicians see, diagnose, and treat patients with severe bacterial infections on every shift. Advances in the understanding of mammalian biochemistry, immunology, and physiology offer new pathways by which we can understand and diagnose this complex disease process. The improved sophistication of laboratory methods offers the rapid detection of biomarkers previously only available thr...

BACKGROUND In previous studies the authors have found sick leave to be a predictor of future sick leave, unemployment and disability pension. Although sick leave reflects underlying health problems, some studies have suggested that sick leave may have consequences beyond the consequences of the underlying illness. However, few studies have aimed at studying consequences of sick leave while adju...

OBJECTIVE To investigate diagnosis-specific sick leave as a risk marker for subsequent disability pension. DESIGN A prospective population based cohort study. Exposure to a new medically certified sick leave episode of more than seven days by diagnosis during 1985 was examined in relation to incident cause-specific disability pension through 1996. PARTICIPANTS The total non-retired populati...

1 Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Neuroscience and Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont...