News tagged with sickness leave


Weak social ties at workplace increase risk of burn-out

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Long-term leaves of absence tied to stress-related diagnoses are often preceded by a long period without any secure and comforting social relations. This is shown in a recently published study in public health science at ...





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Going to Work When Sick May Lead to Future Absences

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Employees who often go to work despite feeling sick have higher rates of future work absences due to illness, according to a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the ...


Repeatedly working when ill boosts risk of long term sick leave

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created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Repeatedly going to work when ill significantly boosts the chances of having to take long term sick leave later on, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.


Reason for sickness absence can predict employee deaths

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created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to circulatory or psychiatric problems ...


Flexible workplaces reduce rate of sickness absence

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created May 29, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

People with fun and stimulating jobs, and who are able to adapt their workplace to their needs, have a lower rate of sickness absence and more often go to work despite being ill. This also applies to workplaces with heavy ...


Smokers clock up almost 8 additional days of sick leave every year

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created Mar 29, 2007 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Smokers take an average of almost eight days more of sick leave every year than their non-smoking colleagues, suggested research published in Tobacco Control.


Nuclear science to fight sleeping sickness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Friday announced an agreement to help African nations battle the tsetse fly, the main carrier of parasites that causes sleeping sickness with its bites.


More sick leave given to men by male GPs compared with female counterparts

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created Sep 12, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Male patients are given more certified sick leave by male doctors compared with the amount of sick notes given to females by female doctors, a University of Liverpool study has revealed.


Further spread of Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda likely due to livestock movements

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The northwards spread of human Rhodesian sleeping sickness in Uganda is likely due to the movement of infected livestock, according to new findings from an interdisciplinary research group including members from the Centre ...


Poor leadership poses a health risk at work

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Perceived poor managerial leadership increases not only the amount of sick leave taken at a workplace, but also the risk of sickness amongst employees later on in life. The longer a person has had a "poorer" manager, the ...


Patients being discharged against medical advice

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created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

When patients choose to leave the hospital before the treating physician recommends discharge, the consequences may involve risk of inadequately treated medical conditions and the need for readmission, according to a review ...



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