Regular physical activity has a significant impact on health. There is scientific evidence for prescription of exercise in the treatment of at least 26 different chronic non-communicable diseases. Furthermore, it has an indirect role in the preservation of work capacity. The aim of this study was to review the published results of research on the relationship between leisure-time PA and absente...

aim and background: one of main concerning problem among industrial organizational research was to study mood and affect in work environments. the aim of the current research was to investigate relation between mood and affect with organizational citizenship behavior and job absenteeism in work context. methods and materials: this was a correlational study. statistical population consist of all...

OBJECTIVE The aims of this systematic review were to determine the prevalence of reduced work productivity among people with chronic knee pain as well as specifically categorise determinants of work productivity losses into individual, disease and work-related factors, conduct an evaluation of study methodological quality and present a best-evidence synthesis. METHODS We searched the literatu...

Background A systematic review was undertaken to identify regulatory mechanisms aimed at mitigating health care worker absenteeism, to describe where and how they have been implemented as well as their possible effects. The goal was to propose potential policy options for managing the problem of absenteeism among human resources for health in low- and middle-income countries. Mechanisms describ...

Sickness absenteeism, of hospital employees particularly, is a problem of concern due to its negative economic and morale impacts. The aim of the first stage of the study was to identify according to some demographic (sex, age, marital status) and occupational (occupational group, duration of hospital employment) variables those groups of hospital employees who are at higher risk of sickness ab...

absenteeism was highly correlated with laboratory-confi rmed infl uenza, and such information could be used to provide surveillance alerts up to 2 weeks before other traditional infl uenza surveillance data sources (3). The use of workplace absenteeism data, particularly from large employers, has the potential for overcoming the major limitation of school-based absenteeism data in detecting out...

In this contribution a first important step is made towards the automatic generation of reports that describe (in natural language) absenteeism because of sickness in companies. Three parameters are examined: the sickness percentage, the absenteeism percentage (because of sickness), and the reintegration percentage. By means of fuzzy set techniques and an index of reintegration they are transfo...

We develop an integrative theory regarding the effects of mean levels and dispersion of satisfaction predicting absenteeism. Differential interactive predictions are derived for two satisfaction foci and tested in two distinct samples. Among student teams, absenteeism from team meetings was highest when team (internally focused) satisfaction mean and dispersion were both lower, but low when cou...

Work strain has been argued to be a significant cause of absenteeism in the popular and academic press. However, definitive evidence for associations between absenteeism and strain is currently lacking. A theory focused meta-analysis of 275 effects from 153 studies revealed positive but small associations between absenteeism and work strain, psychological illness, and physical illness. Structur...

Licensing laws were changed in Northern Ireland on 1st October 1987 to allow drinking of alcohol in public houses on Sundays. The effect on absenteeism was studied in the immediate period after this change using Monday absenteeism as a marker for change. The study was conducted in a small poultry processing plant employing approximately four hundred and forty people. Mean differences between Mo...