Even now, with little choice, he faced the added obstacle of working with fingertips numbed in a common side-effect of chemotherapy.
The Flags model focuses on the identification of obstacles to working with health conditions, development of a plan to manage health and work, taking action to address the issues each individual patient is facing with respect to managing their musculoskeletal condition in the workplace and re-evaluating the patient's situation regularly until a sustained return to work is achieved [ 28].
Throughout the summer, I will continue to pass along to the HuffPost community stories about the obstacles and joys of working here, the stories our students produce and thoughts about what I am learning from the region.
Public policy can help remove some of the obstacles for working women.
Everyday obstacles to the development of working practices, such as a shortage of educators or the problem of educator turnover — are also addressed.
That misconception is among the obstacles to signing up children of working parents.
Several studies have shown that chimpanzee population history can be very important for understanding the distribution of disease [ 32- 34], but these studies have encountered considerable obstacles owing to the difficulties of working with fecal samples from reclusive, highly endangered chimpanzee populations [ 32].
Lack of previous experience is no obstacle: we apply a process of working with our early years specialist musicians, peer-to-peer mentoring, rehearsals and performance challenges, as well as the unusual opportunity to perform productions more than once.
It should also be stressed that this study was conceived in response to a call for more qualitative research in this area, and therefore the chosen methodology and the inclusion of significant others helped initiate a wider investigation of psychosocial obstacles to work participation.
Our findings suggest that patients will encounter a range of psychosocial obstacles to work participation and there is a danger both they and their significant others will perceive these obstacles as insurmountable especially in the face of socio-cultural scepticism about their condition, along with widespread disparagement of the unemployed.
