In this study, sick leave patterns were measured in terms of sickness absence rate and number of sick leave episodes [ 27].
The finding that absence-prone workers have a higher risk of unemployment is consistent with the results of the previous section, i.e. the threat of firing and subsequent unemployment have a disciplinary effect on the worker's behavior in terms of sickness absences.
To corroborate our findings, using the Bank of Italy's Survey on Household Income and Wealth which includes both public and private employees, we show that public employees, who are almost not dismissable, do not react in terms of sickness absences to the unemployment rate in their local labor market.
When you compare being gay to being an alcoholic, as you did in interviews with the local media, you cause parents who give credence to you to see their LGBT children in terms of sickness and addiction.
In the present study we used information retrieved through record linkage between three population-based registries to investigate possible socioeconomic consequences of breast cancer survivors in terms of sickness benefits, marital status, welfare dependence, and income changes 3 and 5 years following a breast cancer diagnosis.
Knowledge about their consequences in terms of sickness absence due to otoaudiological diagnoses is very scarce.
Our results indicate that the social consequences in terms of sickness absence seem to be higher for women.
A lack of appropriate and timely intervention can lead to social exclusion, lost economic productivity in terms of sickness absence and worklessness.
In addition, musculoskeletal pain has financial consequences for both the patients and their employers in terms of sickness absence and lost productivity [ 4].
To investigate associations of giving birth with morbidity in terms of hospitalisation and social consequences of morbidity in terms of sickness absence (SA), while taking familial (genetics and shared environmental) factors into account.
In programmes aimed at preventing the unfavourable consequences of MSD in terms of sickness absence and health care use it is important to identify the (individual) factors that determine the development of chronicity of complaints.
