At the time of this study, all employees in Sweden were covered by the same sickness-benefit insurance, which after one qualifying day covered up to 80% of the income below a given limit, for full- or part-time sick leave. The first 14 days were financed by the employer, and thereafter...
Sick-leave duration was defined as the number of days with compensation regard- less of sick-leave extent and type of benefit. Time to the next sickness spell (the interval time) was defined as the number of non-compensated days from the conclusion of one spell to th...
BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access The prevalence of work-related stress, and its association with self-perceived health and sick-leave, in a population of employed Swedish women Kristina Holmgren1, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff*1, Cecilia Björkelund2 ...
European employees are increasingly likely to work in cases of illness (sickness presenteeism, SP). Past studies found inconsistent evidence for the assumption that temporary workers decide to avoid taking sick leave due to job insecurity. A new measure to identify decision-based determinants of SP ...
Note, however, that if an employee is requesting another type of leave, like FMLA leave or another paid leave benefit concurrently, employers may require the documentation typically requested in connection with those leaves.[/od_accordion]
(Participant 14) Finally, some objections regarded the inequity result- ing in the concrete application of a criterion of personal They will benefit equally from the procedure, and only one can get the liver: should it be the mother or the drug user? This is an ethical dilemma, but ul-...
t know where to look, I don’t know where to go, I don’t know what to eat, I don’t know what to take, I don’t know what I like, I don’t know what’s best for me. And though I am currently well below my natural quota of 8 doctors, I know how to care for myself...
her to put it together. It’s unfortunate that the author sometimes gets reported and blocked by Facebook for either posting “too much” (seriously??) or for questionable posts (again – say what??), sowe have to keep it circulating so as many people as possible benefit from its ...
The success of some interventions in reducing morbidity and mortality rates suggests that QI approaches have a high potential for benefit to newborns. Going forward, there are opportunities to strengthen the focus of QI initiatives and to develop improved, larger-scale, collaborative research into ...
for reforming Vietnamese health insurance to focus on: (1) sustained resource mobilisation; (2) comprehensive functions of the health financing system; and (3) a long-term view of health insurance reform. Although roughly 50 % of the population benefit from some form of health insurance, only...