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Sickness absence and mental health: evidence from a nationally representative longitudinal survey

Author(s) -

Mark Wooden,

Melisa Bubonya,

Deborah A. CobbClark

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

scandinavian journal of work environment and health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1795-990X

pISSN - 0355-3140

DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.3553

Subject(s) - mental health , demography , medicine , negative binomial distribution , depression (economics) , attendance , longitudinal study , psychology , psychiatry , statistics , pathology , sociology , economics , poisson distribution , macroeconomics , mathematics , economic growth

Previous studies have consistently reported evidence of large significant associations between measures of psychological health and sickness absence. Some of this association, however, may be confounded by relevant covariates that have not been controlled. By using data with repeated observations from the same individuals, this study aimed to quantify the bias due to unobserved characteristics that are time invariant.

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