Instead, a government self-certification form is available for the purpose of claiming the state sickness benefit from day four to day seven. This arrangement will last until April 6,1983 in Great Britain when employers will become solely responsible for the first eight weeks of their employees'...
Patients visiting self-employed FDs pay directly, and are not reimbursed unless privately insured. We aimed to contribute to the discussion on the impact of sickness certification in family practice by studying the phenomenon using electronic data from an electronic patient record (EPR) used by self...
Within employment groups, levels of sickness absence were inversely proportional to the level of self-employment. CONCLUSIONS: These data reported by GPs with vocational training in occupational medicine may help to inform policy decisions targeting work-related exposures and the management of sickness ...
All SA data of ≤7 days in Sweden are self-certified. Employers keep the medical certification for all SA between 8 and 14 days in length (7–28 days in 1997 and the first quarter of 1998). Information about repeated shorter absences (paid for by employers) was not available to us. ...
Work ability was assessed using the 22-item Workability Index (range: 7–49) [31] which also contains one item on self-reported sickness absence during the past 12 months. The latter was used to assess possible selection bias in sampling as described below. Questionnaires were either complete...
On the other hand, indicators of work exposures were self-reported in the beginning of the follow-up and working conditions may have changed in the municipal sector since the sample was established. Although the core of many jobs in nursing, kitchen work, transport, administration, or education...
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In Malta, sickness certificates are needed from the first day of illness, and are issued by family doctors (FDs) either employed in the government primary healthcare system, or self-employed in private practice, or employed directly by an employer for this purpose alone. Patients visiting self-...
INTRODUCTION: In Malta, sickness certificates are needed from the first day of illness, and are issued by family doctors (FDs) either employed in the government primary healthcare system, or self-employed in private practice, or employed directly by an employer for this purpose alone. Patients ...