Licensing laws were changed in Northern Ireland on 1st October 1987 to allow drinking of alcohol in public houses on Sundays. The effect on absenteeism was studied in the immediate period after this change using Monday absenteeism as a marker for change. The study was conducted in a small poultry processing plant employing approximately four hundred and forty people. Mean differences between Mo...

BACKGROUND Sickness absenteeism has been a focus of the EU Labour Force Surveys since the early 1970s. In contrast, sickness presenteeism is a newcomer. Based on surveys, this concept emerged in the empirical literature as late as the 1990s. Knowledge of the determinants of sickness presenteeism is still relatively sparse. METHODS The article examines the prevalence of sickness presenteeism i...

Absenteeism results in an increased workload for nurses who stand in for colleagues and can lead to situations in which a lack of motivation among nurses and a lowering of the quality of patient care may occur. The researcher observed that certain conditions, such as inflexible working schedules, were given as reasons for the absenteeism in units in a provincial hospital. A non-experimental, de...

INTRODUCTION Youth health-related fitness positively affects academic outcomes, although limited research has focused on the relationship between fitness and school absenteeism. We examined the longitudinal association between individual children's fitness and lagged school absenteeism over 4 years in urban middle schools. METHODS Six cohorts of New York City public school students were follo...

AIMS To examine the relationship between Australian workers' patterns of alcohol consumption and absenteeism. DESIGN A secondary analysis of the 2001 National Drug Strategy Household Survey data. SETTING Australia 2001. PARTICIPANTS A total of 13 582 workers aged >or=14 years. MEASUREMENTS Alcohol consumption levels associated with National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) gu...

INTRODUCTION Asthma is one of the leading causes of school absenteeism. Previous studies have shown that school absenteeism is related to family income of individual students. However, there is little research examining whether school absenteeism is related to school-level concentration of low-income students, independent of family income. The objective of this study was to examine whether the ...

This study aims to identify factors that result in employees’ absenteeism in an organization, which may help the company manager to develope and identify attitudes of employees for minimising absenteeism. Data was collected from 100 steel manufacturing firm organizations adopting random or chance sampling method. The data was subjected to simple percentage analysis, for demographic variables an...