Pupils with special educational needs in basic education schools and teachers’ sickness absences – a register-linkage study | Zendy

Jenni Ervasti | Zendy; Mika Kivimäki | Zendy; Ichiro Kawachi | Zendy; S. V. Subramanian | Zendy; Jaana Pentti | Zendy; Kirsi Ahola | Zendy; Tuula Oksanen | Zendy; Tiina Pohjonen | Zendy; Jussi Vahtera | Zendy; Marianna Virtanen | Zendy

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Pupils 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.

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