BACKGROUND Sickness absenteeism has been a focus of the EU Labour Force Surveys since the early 1970s. In contrast, sickness presenteeism is a newcomer. Based on surveys, this concept emerged in the empirical literature as late as the 1990s. Knowledge of the determinants of sickness presenteeism is still relatively sparse. METHODS The article examines the prevalence of sickness presenteeism i...

Absenteeism results in an increased workload for nurses who stand in for colleagues and can lead to situations in which a lack of motivation among nurses and a lowering of the quality of patient care may occur. The researcher observed that certain conditions, such as inflexible working schedules, were given as reasons for the absenteeism in units in a provincial hospital. A non-experimental, de...

INTRODUCTION Youth health-related fitness positively affects academic outcomes, although limited research has focused on the relationship between fitness and school absenteeism. We examined the longitudinal association between individual children's fitness and lagged school absenteeism over 4 years in urban middle schools. METHODS Six cohorts of New York City public school students were follo...

AIMS To examine the relationship between Australian workers' patterns of alcohol consumption and absenteeism. DESIGN A secondary analysis of the 2001 National Drug Strategy Household Survey data. SETTING Australia 2001. PARTICIPANTS A total of 13 582 workers aged >or=14 years. MEASUREMENTS Alcohol consumption levels associated with National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) gu...

INTRODUCTION Asthma is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism. Previous studies have shown that school absenteeism is related to family income of individual students. However, there is little research examining whether school absenteeism is related to school-level concentration of low-income students, independent of family income. The objective of this study was to examine whether the ...

This study aims to identify factors that result in employees’ absenteeism in an organization, which may help the company manager to develope and identify attitudes of employees for minimising absenteeism. Data was collected from 100 steel manufacturing firm organizations adopting random or chance sampling method. The data was subjected to simple percentage analysis, for demographic variables an...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the critical success factors affecting employee absenteeism among frontline healthcare workers in Lagos State. Data was collected from 350 using a questionnaire and simple random sampling technique. statistical analysis revealed negative significant relationship between absenteeism, positive job performance, performance cost absenteeism. This sug...

BACKGROUND The occupational health and safety implications associated with compressed and extended work periods have not been fully explored in the mining sector. AIMS To examine the impact on employee health and safety of changes to the roster system in an Australian coal mine. METHODS Absenteeism and incident frequency rate data were collected over a 33 month period that covered three dif...