The study compares the number of sickness absence days during the last 12 months and the impact of employment status, psychosocial work stress, self-rated health and demographics on sickness absence between self-employed practitioners and employed hospital doctors in Norway.
The aim of this study is to compare the number of sickness absence days during the last 12 months and the impact of the employment status, psychosocial work stress, self-rated health and demographics on sickness absence between self-employed practitioners and employed hospital doctors in Norway.
The majority of dentists are independent self-employed practitioners; they own their practices and lead their dental team.
However, notwithstanding physicians operate as self-employed practitioners, they need the organizational support that enables them to practice medicine.
Three quarters of the primary care midwives in the Netherlands wanted to remain or become self-employed practitioners in their own midwifery practice in five years' time and practice a full range of midwifery care.
This part of the study was funded by the Regional Union of Self-Employed Practitioners (URMEL) Nord Pas de Calais, which compensated GPs €.23 for completing and returning the questionnaire and CRF.
Three quarters (n = 75; 76.5%) of primary care midwives wanted to be (or remain) self-employed practitioners in their own midwifery practice, whether or not in combination with other job types.
Three quarters of the primary care midwives wanted to remain or become self-employed practitioners in their own midwifery practice in five years' time and practice a full range of midwifery care.
Responders wrote about the difficulties of explaining what the Feldenkrais Method is and issues common to self-employed practitioners and small businesses (e.g., building a practice, cost of health insurance, impact of the great recession, practicing in smaller communities, marketing, governmental and regulatory constraints, and record keeping).
The results indicated that most primary care midwives wanted to stay in the midwifery profession and two out of three primary care midwives wanted to be (or remain) self-employed practitioners in private practice, while one in fourteen wanted to work as a clinical midwife.
