Background: Absence from work for health reasons is known as “sickness absenteeism”. Frequent sick leave is a major concern to any organization, especially hospitals. Objective: This study analyzed the extent and causes of sickness absenteeism in a teaching hospital and evaluated its corelation with demographic and occupational factors. Meth...

It is today generally acknowledged that social norms are important for moral hazard in social insurance systems. In this paper we study whether local variation in sickness absence can be explained by local variation in norms concerning benefit dependency – formed by social interaction on the neighborhood level. A well known methodological problem in analyses of this issue is how to disentangle ...

Sickness behavior appears to be the expression of a central motivational state that reorganizes the organism’s priorities to cope with infectious pathogens.To evaluate the effect of selective and non selective COX inhibitors in lipopolysaccharides induced sickness behaviour,rats were subjected to the forced swim test (FST), open field test,actophotometer. LPS(10mcg/kg i.p). administration incre...

Sickness behavior appears to be the expression of a central motivational state that reorganizes an organism's priorities to cope with infectious pathogens. To evaluate the possible participation of nitric oxide (NO) in lipopolysaccharide-induced sickness behaviors, mice were submitted to the forced swim test (FST), open field test and dark-light box test. Food intake and corticosterone plasma l...

BACKGROUND A high prevalence of sickness absence in many countries, at a substantial societal cost, underlines the importance to understand its determining mechanisms. This study focuses on the link between relative deprivation and the probability of sickness absence. METHODS 184,000 men and women in Sweden were followed between 1982 and 2001. The sample consists of working individuals betwee...

background: precarious employment is a major social determinant of health and health inequalities with effects beyond the health of workers. objective: to investigate the association between precarious employment and sickness absence in 4 nordic countries, denmark, finland, norway, and sweden. methods: logistic regression analyses were conducted separately for each country on data from 4186 res...

A wide range of physiological and behavioral alterations occur in response to sickness. Sickness behaviors, rather than incidental by-products or side-effects of acute illness, serve as adaptive functional responses that allow animals to cope with a pathogenic challenge. Among the more salient sickness behaviors is a reduction in food intake; virtually all sick animals display marked decreases ...