To measure the incapacity for work in terms of absence days in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) in Switzerland.
It is also worth commenting that we observed large differences between LV and blindness, in terms of incapacity, dependency and financial consequences.
"It is deplorable in terms of the incapacity to think.
For significant others of patients out of work due a back problem, it may be that to justify the patient's inability to continue in employment, it is necessary that they be defined in terms of their incapacity and in terms of their being 'disabled'disabled
There is another assessment for working ability, the so-called 'work ability index' (WAI), 13 15 which is well investigated in the work environment and in occupational healthcare, where it has been shown to be predictive 15 in terms of future incapacity for work and disability pension.
And both tobacco and alcohol leave a much wider toll in terms of damaged health, incapacity and burdens on health systems.
Therefore, because there were large differences between LV and blind individuals in terms of prevalence rates, incapacity, dependency and financial consequences, we decided to go ahead with distinguishing between the two groups.
"The transition in terms of moving people from incapacity benefit to employment and support allowance is a process that was started under Labour but is being continued under the coalition.
Indirect costs, which from a societal view arose owing to work incapacity for migraine episodes during the study, were evaluated in terms of days of sick-leave from work or other activities like housework.
Prevention is effective in all age groups, even in the latest stages of life. 1 Therefore, an emphasis on prevention is important in terms of changing the current framework of incapacity and comorbidity.
