Open AccessCan sickness absence be predicted at the pre-placement health assessment?
Author(s) -
Charles Poole
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
occupational medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1471-8405
pISSN - 0962-7480
DOI - 10.1093/occmed/49.5.337
Subject(s) - medicine , health assessment , risk assessment , work (physics) , environmental health , psychology , computer science , engineering , pathology , computer security , mechanical engineering
Pre-placement health assessments may be used not only to assess fitness for work but also to predict sickness absence. A risk assessment based on available evidence is proposed for making such judgements.
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