Background Despite an increasing body of knowledge concerning gender and lifestyle factors as determinants of sickness absence in well-developed countries, the relationship between these variables has not ...

Background: Despite an increasing body of knowledge concerning gender and lifestyle factors as determinants of sickness absence in well-developed countries, the relationship between these variables has not been elucidated ...

The objective of this study is to analyse sick leave episodes of a university's collective of statutory workers in the State of SAo Paulo, between January 2010 and December 2015. For this, a descriptive study analysed 5776 ...

Abstract Background Despite an increasing body of knowledge concerning gender and lifestyle factors as determinants of sickness absence in well-developed countries, the ...

BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Acute low back pain (LBP) is a frequent cause of physician visits and sick leave. Patients with longer sick leave account for most costs associated with LBP. Most research on risk factors for prolonged ...

In Chile, sick leaves serve the extra purpose of filling social protection gaps. Therefore, in practice, their operation range extends beyond health care regulations. In our institutional framework, sick leaves are used ...

The aim of this paper was to analyse sickness absenteeism and its association with the socio-occupational characteristics of nursing workers and its interfaces with the work context of a university hospital. This is a mixed ...

Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the main causes of absenteeism, pain and disability in the world of work. Agricultural workers are predisposed to suffer from them because of the nature of their work. Objective: to ...

In a federal public service, the investigation of sick leave, granted by the Integrated Subsystem of Civil Servant Health Care, helps to understand sickness absenteeism, phenomenon related to absence of workers from their ...