Maximus will be reducing the proportion of doctors, and employing occupational therapists instead – which will be cheaper.
The Government wants large companies who employ occupational therapists or health advisers to offer them to small local businesses.
Specifically, we employ occupational cooperatives between workers in pre- and post-treatment periods as well as between control and treatment groups have been compared.
In Belgium, about 10% of the companies, mostly large companies, have installed an internal SPPW and employ occupational physician, ergonomist, safety specialist, psychosocial expert and hygienist.
Our finding that employing occupational physiciansʼ assistance increases the chance of WHP measures is contradictory to the latter study, which was, however, not only narrower in scope but also looking at a slightly different kind of outcome ("workplace health management").
About half of the participants were employed in occupational health services and nearly half as general practitioners (GPs), and a few worked in a rehabilitation clinic; 45% were women.
In environmental epidemiology, when we cannot directly measure the exposure where there is outcome data, various methods are used to predict the unknown exposure that are similar to group-based approach employed in occupational epidemiology.
