Absenteeism
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

[General health in Icelandic farmers]

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: There is a limited information on the general health of Icelandic farmers. It has been suggested that it might be worse than among other professions. This is thought to be in part because of the unique work environment of farmers.The ... Read more...

[Convalescence, sick leave and health economics]

26 Sep 2009 National health policies have been proposed to reduce long-term absenteeism in order to increase labour supply. Convalescence interventions have been developed and optimised and shown to reduce long-term absenteeism and as such they form an integral ... Read more...

Additional disease burden from hay fever and sinusitis accompanying asthma.

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine the additional disease burden imparted by sinusitis and hay fever (allergic rhinitis) to patients with asthma. METHODS: Patients with a diagnosis of asthma, hay fever, or sinusitis were extracted from the National ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Absenteeism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Is Europe fit for work? 8 Oct 2009
• Pandemic flu: implications for sexual and reproductive health services. 29 Sep 2009
• [General health in Icelandic farmers] 29 Sep 2009
• [Convalescence, sick leave and health economics] 26 Sep 2009
• Additional disease burden from hay fever and sinusitis accompanying asthma. 30 Aug 2009
• Impact of headache on young people in a school population. 30 Aug 2009
• Trends in sickness absence in Denmark. 23 Aug 2009
• Improving work ability in construction workers--let's get to work. 18 Aug 2009
• The effect of etanercept on work productivity in patients with early active rheumatoid arthritis: results from the COMET study. 16 Aug 2009
• Modelling to contain pandemics. 4 Aug 2009
• [Influenza pandemic: Would healthcare workers come to work? An analysis of the ability and willingness to report to duty] 30 Jul 2009
• Health benefit costs and absenteeism due to insomnia from the employer's perspective: a retrospective, case-control, database study. 30 Jul 2009
• Do school-based asthma education programs improve self-management and health outcomes? 25 Jul 2009
• Probiotic effects on cold and influenza-like symptom incidence and duration in children. 25 Jul 2009
• Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 29 Jun 2009
• How accurate are self-reports? Analysis of self-reported health care utilization and absence when compared with administrative data. 29 Jun 2009
• Parental perception of oral health status of children in mainstream and special education classrooms. 29 Jun 2009
• Work-related lost productivity and its economic impact on Canadian patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. 29 Jun 2009
• Exploring relationships among anger, perceived organizational support, and workplace outcomes. 29 Jun 2009
• Risk factors for persistent fatigue with significant school absence in children and adolescents. 29 Jun 2009

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Technical information about 'Absenteeism'

Definition: Chronic absence from work or other duty.

Descriptor UI: D000041

Alternative terms: Absenteeism;

Tree Number: F02.784.692.107;

History Note: was in Cat F & J 1967-82, was in Cat F & I 1963-66

Technical Notes: IM; no qualif