Search for dissertations about: "sick leave"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 330 swedish dissertations containing the words sick leave.

  2. 11. Workplace-based sick leave prevention and return to work : exploratory studies

    Author : Randi Wågö Aas; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : sick leave;

    Abstract : Background: Earlier research have revealed risk factors for sick leave in the workplace, and thus the workplace has become an important arena for sick leave prevention and return to work (RTW). Despite that, some of these aspects have received little attention in exploratory studies. READ MORE

  4. 12. Encouraging Encounters : Experiences of People on Sick Leave in Their Meetings with Professionals

    Author : Ulrika Müssener; Kristina Alexandersson; Kurt Svärdsudd; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Encounters; Sickness absence; Sick leave; Return to work; Client perspective; Health promotion; Work; Sjukfrånvaro; Bemötande; Sociala emotioner; Återgång till arbete; Empowerment; Social medicine; Socialmedicin;

    Abstract : Background: The recent increase in long-term sickness absence both in Sweden and many other countries has been met with various attempts to intensify the use of rehabilitation measures in order to prevent people from remaining long-term sickness absent. Several actors, among them professionals in healthcare, occupational health services, and social insurance are involved in handling issues related to the sick leave of an individual, and in providing measures to promote return to work (RTW). READ MORE

  5. 13. Disability Pension with Special Reference to Sick Leave Track Record, Health Effects, Health Care Utilisation and Survival : A Population-based Study

    Author : Thorne Wallman; Kurt Svärdsudd; Gunilla Burell; Urban Janlert; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Sickness absence; sick leave; disability pension; activity compensation; sickness compensation; early retirement; track record; health care utilisation; complaint score; quality of life; wellbeing; mortality; Family medicine; Allmänmedicin;

    Abstract : Background. In Sweden 10 percent (550,000) of the labour force, aged 18 to 65 years are disability pensioners and about four percent are on sick leave. The knowledge of the course from healthy individual to disability pensioner is not well known and was the theme of this thesis. Objectives, Material and Methods. READ MORE

  6. 14. Working while ill, going on sick leave and return to work again: the individual's perspective in primary health care

    Author : Kristin Lork; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; common mental disorders; occupational science; person-centred approach; primary healtcare; rehabilitation coordination; return-to-work; self-efficacy; sick leave; vocational rehabilitation;

    Abstract : The overall purpose of the present thesis was to increase understand-ing of the dynamic process between working while feeling ill, going on sick leave, and returning to work among people seeking care at primary healthcare (PHC). The present thesis aimed to emphasise the individu-al’s perspective on this process. READ MORE

  7. 15. Categorization Work in the Swedish Welfare State : Doctors and social insurance officers on persons with mental ill-health

    Author : Maricel L Knechtel; Michael Allvin; Rafael Lindqvist; Sandra Torres; David Rosenberg; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; institutional categorization; institutional categories; street-level bureaucrats; discretion; sick leave; sick listing; diagnosis; mental illness; psychiatric diagnosis; moral work; deservingness; worthiness; medical sociology; work capability; medical certification; social insurance; vignette studies; discrimination; labeling; stickiness; social mechanisms; matching; screening; signaling; cognitive categorization; working conditions; conflicting demands; client processing; Human Service Organizations; work approach; primary health care; moral stress; Bayes; work capability; rationing; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This dissertation contributes to the debate on street-level bureaucracy, which highlights how the decisions made by workers in public bureaucracies effectively become public policy. This debate has paid relatively little attention to the study of how professionals carry out their work by means of institutional categorization, a knowledge gap that this study helps to close. READ MORE