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 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...

AIM To compare levels of self-efficacy among the general working population and employees with sickness absence from work, and to examine if general self-efficacy measured before occurrence of sickness absence predicted subsequent onset of sickness absence and Return-to-Work. METHODS The study follows a cohort of 5357 working employees and 106 long-term sickness absent employees in Denmark. T...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial work conditions, particularly psychological job demands, are inconsistently associated with sickness absence rates. This might be the result of investigating the psychosocial work environment at the individual level, reflecting personal perceptions rather than actual demands. AIM To investigate associations between sickness absence and psychosocial work conditions at b...

A non-commutative version of the Bernštĕın-GelfandGelfand (BGG) correspondence is set up, and a sample application is given to periodic injective resolutions. 0. Introduction The Bernštĕın-Gelfand-Gelfand correspondence is surprising. It gives an equivalence of categories gr(E) ≃ D(coh P). This was proved in [4, thm. 2] and as always, to explain such a formula requires lots of words. On the lef...