Open AccessPupils with special educational needs in basic education schools and teachers’ sickness absences – a register-linkage study
Author(s) -
Jenni Ervasti,
Mika Kivimäki,
Ichiro Kawachi,
S. V. Subramanian,
Jaana Pentti,
Kirsi Ahola,
Tuula Oksanen,
Tiina Pohjonen,
Jussi Vahtera,
Marianna Virtanen
Publication year - 2012
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.3281
Subject(s) - absenteeism , psychology , confidence interval , term (time) , demography , pupil , mathematics education , medicine , social psychology , sociology , physics , neuroscience , quantum mechanics
We examined whether having a high percentage of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) inbasic education schools increases the risk of sickness absence among teachers and whether this risk is dependent on thepupil-teacher ratio (PTR), an indicator of teacher resources at school.