Macro-organizational factors, the incidence of work disability, and work ability among the total workforce of home care workers in Sweden

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 17-25

  Dellve, Lotta ^a   Karlberg, Catarina ^a   Herloff, Birgitta ^a   Hagberg, Mats ^a   Allebeck, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort; health personnel; home health aides; home care service; incidence; occupational diseases; retirement; sick leave; social environment; socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEDICAL LEAVE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY; PENSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; SALARY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; UNEMPLOYMENT; VARIANCE; WORK CAPACITY; WORK DISABILITY; WORK RESUMPTION; WORKING TIME;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOME HEALTH AIDES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; REHABILITATION, VOCATIONAL; RETIREMENT; SICK LEAVE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 32144441304     PISSN: 14034948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14034940510032194     Document Type: Article

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