Pre-employment examinations for preventing injury, disease and sick leave in workers

Schaafsma, Frederieke; Mahmud, Norashikin; Reneman, Michiel F.; Fassier, Jean‐Baptiste; Jungbauer, Frederic

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd008881.pub2

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“…The targeted HCU may work as triggers for interventions to address poor work ability ( 9 , 40 ) while they can also work as interventions themselves ( 8 ). The health education given during HCU may have some effect in the prevention of occupational asthma and accidents ( 41 ). Moreover, health education may be even more important from the point of view that the risk factors found during HCU have predictive value of mortality for decades ( 20 ).…”

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Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland

Kuronen¹,

Winell²,

Kopra³

et al. 2020

Scand J Work Environ Health

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Being affiliated with the occupational healthcare (OHC) quality network (OQN)-a voluntary collaborative forum in Finland-can reduce the need for disability pensions among employees in the care of the OHC unit. When the OHC unit participates in common quality improvement (QI) activities (quality measurements of intervening in excess use of alcohol, quality facilitator training, and the focus of work ability measurements) it may decrease the risk of work disability pensions.

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Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland

Kuronen¹,

Winell²,

Kopra³

et al. 2020

Scand J Work Environ Health

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“…Investigators of experimental design studies and systematic reviews involving meta-analysis of quantified results from primary studies (e.g., Cochrane Collaboration, the Community Guide) are often limited in their interpretation of results and in the use of research findings for directing policy development and implementation (17). Indeed, a scan through the author conclusions of Cochrane Public Health reviews published between January 2016 and February 2018 revealed that out of 15 reviews published and active during that period, 12 were inconclusive, citing either a lack of clarity in the evidence base (36,48,52), uninterpretability of results (4,30,33), or the need for better quality research to determine conclusions (7-9, 48, 55, 59). A realist critique of the Cochrane approach to reviewing complex social programs in public health is that data aggregation based on counterfactual logic from experimental trials does not typically account for the complexity inherent in socially contingent public health programming.…”

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Realist Synthesis for Public Health: Building an Ontologically Deep Understanding of How Programs Work, For Whom, and In Which Contexts

Jagosh

2019

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Realist synthesis is a literature review methodology for understanding how, for whom, and under what circumstances complex interventions function in complex environments. Using a heuristic called the context-mechanism-outcome (CMO) configuration, realist synthesis produces evidence-informed theories about the interactions between intervention mechanisms and their implementation contexts. Public health interventions and their effects unfold over time and develop differently in different contexts. Much of what causes programs to function remains in a realm beyond empirical measurement. By scrutinizing the theories relevant to the interventions of interest, and by enhancing the conceptualization of complex outcomes, the realist approach deprioritizes evidence hierarchies and harnesses insights from diverse data sources to generate causal understanding. The dynamic learning process that can arise in conducting a realist synthesis may generate new ideas for program development and innovation apart from what can be achieved in reviews providing a summation and aggregation of quantified evidence.

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“…They further contribute to reduce absenteeism and work accidents, as well to epidemiological studies of and impacts on the quality of life of workers 49 , 50 . However, in a systematic review performed in 2016 Schaafsma et al 51 failed to find evidence for the effectiveness of this approach for any health condition.…”

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Oral health in the context of prevention of absenteeism and presenteeism in the workplace

Lima¹,

Buarque²

2019

Rev. Bras. Med. Trab.

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| Background: Oral health is an important factor of human morbidity worldwide. Yet is often neglected in occupational health despite its direct impact on the quality of life and health of workers. Objective: To discuss the role of oral health in sickness absence and presenteeism, as well as in development and work efficiency improvement processes involving governments, companies and the workers themselves. Methods: Review of full-text articles on oral health, occupational health, sickness absence and presenteeism published in English or Portuguese in the last 10 years and included in scientific databases. Results: Oral problems accounted for 9 to 27% cases of sickness absence and 28 to 50% of presenteeism, with toothache and temporomandibular joint pain as the most frequent reasons. About 50% of workers prefer company-provided dental care, while 40% visit public and 10% other types of facilities. Despite high, the prevalence of oral diseases and orofacial pain was not associated with high rates of absenteeism, but mainly with presenteeism, this is to say, workers do not tend to miss work days, but their performance is reduced and become susceptible to more serious health problems in the future. Conclusion: Oral health is not dissociated from general and occupational health, and as such it must be enhanced and duly promoted in an integrated manner. Effective and comprehensive oral health promotion and prevention public policies and private sector actions in the workplace can enhance the quality of life of workers.

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Pre-employment examinations for preventing injury, disease and sick leave in workers

Cited by 16 publications

References 45 publications

Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland

Quality improvement activity in occupational healthcare associated with reduced need for disability retirement: A Bayesian mixed effects modelling study in Finland

Realist Synthesis for Public Health: Building an Ontologically Deep Understanding of How Programs Work, For Whom, and In Which Contexts

Oral health in the context of prevention of absenteeism and presenteeism in the workplace

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