Digital health and disability claims

Are tribunals given appropriate and sufficient evidence for disability claims?

BACKGROUND Occupational physicians are sometimes surprised at the decisions made by employment tribunals. AIM To assess employment tribunal judgements on disability discrimination in order to determine whether the evidence placed before the tribunal was appropriate and sufficient. METHOD Qualitative review of recorded tribunal judgements for an 18-month period between 1 January 2005 and 31 ...

Repeat workers' compensation claims: risk factors, costs and work disability

BACKGROUND The objective of our study was to describe factors associated with repeat workers' compensation claims and to compare the work disability arising in workers with single and multiple compensation claims. METHODS All initial injury claims lodged by persons of working age during a five year period (1996 to 2000) and any repeat claims were extracted from workers' compensation administr...

Swedish consumers' cognitive approaches to nutrition claims and health claims

INTRODUCTION AND AIM Studies show frequent use of nutrition claims and health claims in consumers' choice of food products. The aim of the present study was to investigate how consumers' thoughts about these claims and food products are affected by various types of food-related experiences. MATERIAL AND METHODS The data collection comprised 30 individual interviews among Swedish consumers age...

Disability and Oral Health

Measuring health and disability.

Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs)—a frequent indicator for assessment of the relative eff ects of public-health interventions—explicitly incorporate disability. This Viewpoint will argue, however, that the notion of disability embodied in DALYs does not accord with that in WHO’s International Classifi cation of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF). Underlying this inconsistency is the...