Predicting sickness absence - Are extended health check-ups of any value? Comparisons of three individual risk models

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-111

  Falkenberg, Anna ^a   Nyfjäll, Mats ^b   Bildt, Carina ^c   Vingård, Eva ^a,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STATISTICON AB   (Sweden)

^c GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Occupational and Environmental Medicine ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPLOYER; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREDICTION; SELF EVALUATION; SMOKING; SWEDEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST HIP RATIO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HEALTH STATUS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL LEAVE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

EID: 67449092004     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31818c306c     Document Type: Article

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