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...

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the critical success factors affecting employee absenteeism among frontline healthcare workers in Lagos State. Data was collected from 350 using a questionnaire and simple random sampling technique. statistical analysis revealed negative significant relationship between absenteeism, positive job performance, performance cost absenteeism. This sug...

BACKGROUND The occupational health and safety implications associated with compressed and extended work periods have not been fully explored in the mining sector. AIMS To examine the impact on employee health and safety of changes to the roster system in an Australian coal mine. METHODS Absenteeism and incident frequency rate data were collected over a 33 month period that covered three dif...

The aim of this article is to determine the trends in absenteeism from 2000 to 2012 in Croatia and to examine if the observed trends could be related to the regulations implemented to keep the absenteeism on low level. In Croatia only family doctors keep the responsibility for sick leave and were always been targeted by many regulations to keep absenteeism on appropriate level. A study was obse...