BACKGROUND Attempts to identify particular aspects of psychosocial work conditions as predictors of sickness absence remain inconclusive. A global measure has previously been suggested to be an efficient way to measure psychosocial work conditions in questionnaires. This paper investigates whether satisfaction with specific aspects of psychosocial work conditions explains sickness absence beyon...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine whether psychosocial work demands have a different impact on sickness absence and presenteeism in countries with a high vs. countries with a low Human Development Index (HDI). METHODS This article is based on an analysis of the fifth European Working Conditions Survey. We investigated single items as well as complex constructs and indices....

BACKGROUND It is unclear if objective selection of employees, for an intervention to prevent sickness absence, is more effective than subjective 'personal enlistment'. We hypothesize that objectively selected employees are 'at risk' for sickness absence and eligible to participate in the intervention program. METHODS The dispatch of 8603 screening instruments forms the starting point of the o...

symptoms; (2) on the varying interpretation physicians have placed on those symptoms. These remarks refer exclusively to the physical phenomena. There was nothing in the mental symptoms calling for any special notice. The subject was an unmarried man, aged 31, who had been farming in the Colonies for some time past. Family History.?His father suffered from queer kind of seizures, in which he tu...

Abstract Absences pose a dilemma for theories of causation. Allowing them to be causes seems make too permissive. Banning from being restrictive. An increasingly popular approach this is acknowledge that norms can affect which absences count as causes. In article, I distinguish between two influential implementations such ‘abnormality’ approaches and argue so-called ‘double-prevention mechanism...