Cancer as the cause of changes in work situation (a NOCWO study)

Lindbohm, M-L; Kuosma, Eeva; Taskila, Taina; Hietanen, Päivi; Carlsen, Kathrine; Gudbergsson, Sævar Berg; Gunnarsdóttir, Hólmfríður K.

doi:10.1002/pon.1797

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“…A similar result was observed in two studies conducted about the impact of cancer diagnosis on income [16,17]. In addition, the disease affected work negatively which is in agreement with studies that presented that the disease affects patients' jobs negatively [18][19][20].…”

Section: Perceptions About the Disease And Quality Of Lifesupporting

confidence: 90%

Evaluation of Palliative Care Services Provided to Cancer Patients in the Gaza Strip

Hamad¹,

Skaik²,

Abu‐Odah³

2016

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Palliative care is designed to help patients to experience the best possible quality of life. The purpose of this study is to ascertain how far palliative care services are provided for cancer patients in Gaza. Patients treated at the oncology departments of three governmental hospitals had completed the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer/European Society for Medical Oncology (MASCC/ESMO), and PEACE international tool after introducing some modifications, and a twelve-item demographic questionnaire. A total of 374 respondents out of 396 (94.4%) positively responded and participated in the study. The overall mean percentage of all items for all domains, which reflects the availability of palliative care, is 68.72%, which means that the provided palliative care services are reasonably moderate. The medical aspect of care provided by physicians elicited the highest score (74%); meanwhile, the nursing aspect of care scored less (68%). Younger patients, whose malignancies were discovered at early stages and those who were treated in one single hospital, elicited higher scores with statistically significant differences in comparison to their counter groups. Despite being available, palliative care services are not well-framed in Gaza's hospitals. The study recommends that psychosocial care, home management and the adoption of multi-disciplinary team approach in palliative care require greater attention.

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Section: Perceptions About the Disease And Quality Of Lifesupporting

confidence: 90%

Evaluation of Palliative Care Services Provided to Cancer Patients in the Gaza Strip

Hamad¹,

Skaik²,

Abu‐Odah³

2016

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“…That is, CSs make important changes in work that are not captured if only employment status is measured. In our study, we do not know exactly the kind of work changes the employed and self-employed people made, but other Nordic studies [18,34] have shown that changing occupation, employer, or work tasks is common. Since other studies have shown that many CSs struggle with fatigue and consequently reduced physical and mental working capacity [15,17,35], most cancer-related changes in work are probably due to this.…”

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confidence: 78%

Social support at work and work changes among cancer survivors in Norway

Torp

Gudbergsson

Dahl

et al. 2011

Scand J Public Health

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Aims: To investigate how cancer survivors (CSs) experience the cancer-related support they get at the workplace, the proportion of CSs who change work due to cancer and the sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with CSs' work changes. Methods: CSs of the 10 most common invasive types of cancer for men and women in Norway completed a mailed questionnaire 15-39 months after primary treatment. All CSs who were working when diagnosed were included in the analyses (n ¼ 1115). Leaving the workforce and making other important changes in paid work were regarded as work changes. Results: When diagnosed with cancer, 84% of the CSs experienced their supervisor as caring vs. 90% for colleagues. At the time of the survey, 84% were still working; 24% had made changes in work due to the cancer. Work changes due to cancer were most common among CSs who reported low supervisor support related to the cancer (odds ratio (OR) 0.78) and high physical (OR 2.48) and psychological job demands (OR 1.39) at the time of diagnosis. Work changes were more common among self-employed CSs than among employees (OR 2.03). CSs with high education (OR 0.59) and medium income (OR 0.66) made fewer work changes than other CSs, but these differences were not significant when controlled for the work factors. Conclusions: Close follow-up by supervisors should be a key element in workplace health promotion programmes for CSs. Further, the programmes should target both physical and psychosocial work factors.

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“…These dynamics are more or less supported according to the nature of the initial endowments of human capital, the difficulty of working conditions before the illness but also the type of cancer (site, severity disease) and finally, the nature of the treatment (Mujahid et al, 2011;Lindbohm et al, 2011;Johnsson et al, 2011;Blinder et al, 2012). Past professional biography (unemployment or training episodes) can lead to stigmatizing effects on the careers of individuals (Heckman and Borjas, 1980;Tominey and Gregg, 2005) and, for some social groups, predicts the occurrence of professional cancers.…”

Section: Cancer Onset Effects On Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Health, Work and Working Conditions

Barnay

2014

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03360596Complete document available on OLIS in its original format This document and any map included herein are without prejudice to the status of or sovereignty over any territory, to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and to the name of any territory, city or area. ECO/WKP(2014) © OECD (2014)You can copy, download or print OECD content for your own use, and you can include excerpts from OECD publications, databases and multimedia products in your own documents, presentations, blogs, websites and teaching materials, provided that suitable acknowledgment of OECD as source and copyright owner is given. All requests for commercial use and translation rights should be submitted to rights@oecd.org ECO/WKP(2014)44 3 ABSTRACT/RESUME Health, Work and Working Conditions: A Review of the European Economic LiteratureEconomists have traditionally been very cautious when studying the interaction between employment and health because of the two-way causal relationship between these two variables: health status influences the probability of being employed and, at the same time, working affects the health status. Because these two variables are determined simultaneously, researchers control endogeneity bias (e.g., reverse causality, omitted variables) when conducting empirical analysis. With these caveats in mind, the literature finds that a favourable work environment and high job security lead to better health conditions. Being employed with appropriate working conditions plays a protective role on physical health and psychiatric disorders. By contrast, non-employment and retirement are generally worse for mental health than employment, and overemployment has a negative effect on health. These findings stress the importance of employment and of adequate working conditions for the health of workers. In this context, it is a concern that a significant proportion of European workers (29%) would like to work fewer hours because unwanted long hours are likely to signal a poor level of job satisfaction and inadequate working conditions, with detrimental effects on health. Thus, in Europe, labour-market policy has increasingly paid attention to job sustainability and job satisfaction. The literature clearly invites employers to take better account of the worker preferences when setting the number of hours worked. Overall, a specific "flexicurity" (combination of high employment protection, job satisfaction and active labour-market policies) is likely to have a positive effect on health.This Working Paper relates to the 2014 OECD Economic Survey of the United States (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-united-states.htm).Classification JEL Codes: I18, I28, J28, J81

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Cancer as the cause of changes in work situation (a NOCWO study)

Cited by 45 publications

References 35 publications

Evaluation of Palliative Care Services Provided to Cancer Patients in the Gaza Strip

Evaluation of Palliative Care Services Provided to Cancer Patients in the Gaza Strip

Social support at work and work changes among cancer survivors in Norway

Health, Work and Working Conditions

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