Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) Norway, Poland and Switzerland

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) Norway, Poland and Switzerland
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2006-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9264026320

This first report in a new OECD series on sickness, disability and work explores the possible factors behind this paradox. It looks specifically at the cases of Norway, Poland and Switzerland, and highlights the role of institutions and policies. A range of reform recommendations is put forward.

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) Norway, Poland and Switzerland

Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers (Vol. 1) Norway, Poland and Switzerland
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2006-11-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9264026320

This first report in a new OECD series on sickness, disability and work explores the possible factors behind this paradox. It looks specifically at the cases of Norway, Poland and Switzerland, and highlights the role of institutions and policies. A range of reform recommendations is put forward.

Handbook of Return to Work

Handbook of Return to Work
Author: Izabela Z. Schultz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 712
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1489976272

This comprehensive interdisciplinary synthesis focuses on the clinical and occupational intervention processes enabling workers to return to their jobs and sustain employment after injury or serious illness as well as ideas for improving the wide range of outcomes of entry and re-entry into the workplace. Information is accessible along key theoretical, research, and interventive lines, emphasizing a palette of evidence-informed approaches to return to work and stay at work planning and implementation, in the context of disability prevention. Condition-specific chapters detail best return to work and stay at work practices across diverse medical and psychological diagnoses, from musculoskeletal disorders to cancer, from TBI to PTSD. The resulting collection bridges the gap between research evidence and practice and gives readers necessary information from a range of critical perspectives. Among the featured topics: Understanding motivation to return to work: economy of gains and losses. Overcoming barriers to return to work: behavioral and cultural change. Program evaluation in return to work: an integrative framework. Working with stakeholders in return to work processes. Return to work after major limb loss. Improving work outcomes among cancer survivors. Return to work among women with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The Handbook of Return to Work is an invaluable, unique and comprehensive resource for health, rehabilitation, clinical, counselling and industrial psychologists, rehabilitation specialists, occupational and physical therapists, family and primary care physicians, psychiatrists and physical medicine and rehabilitation as well as occupational medicine specialists, case and disability managers and human resource professionals. Academics and researchers across these fields will also find expert guidance and direction in these pages. It is an essential reading for all return to work and stay at work stakeholders.

New Dynamics of Disability and Rehabilitation

New Dynamics of Disability and Rehabilitation
Author: Ivan Harsløf
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2019-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9811373469

This collection provides a broad coverage of recent changes in medical and vocational rehabilitation in Northern Europe. It presents analyses that cut across health sciences, medical sociology, disability studies and comparative welfare state research. Through this interdisciplinary perspective, the book explores the changing roles of patients, caregivers, professionals and institutions, and the wider implications of these changes for social inequalities in health. What obstacles do different groups of patients encounter when negotiating the complex chains of medical and vocational services? Who decides regarding references to specialized treatments, and the provision of comprehensive and coordinated services, and different types of benefits and material support? What is the importance of the resources that patients and caregivers bring to bear in the rehabilitation process?