The assessment of efforts to return to work in the European Union

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 689-694

  Muijzer, Anna ^a   Groothoff, Johan W ^a   De Boer, Wout E L ^b   Geertzen, Jan H B ^a   Brouwer, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disability; return to work; vocational rehabilitation; work

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; WORKMAN COMPENSATION;

DISABILITY EVALUATION; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; EMPLOYMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; WORKERS' COMPENSATION;

EID: 78649691270     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckp244     Document Type: Article

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