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Predicting Sickness Absence-Are Extended Health Check-ups of Any Value? : Comparisons of Three Individual Risk Models
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- Falkenberg, Anna (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper,Eva Vingård
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Nyfjäll, Mats (author)
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Bildt, Carina (author)
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- Vingård, Eva (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper,Eva Vingård
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- 2009
- 2009
- English.
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In: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. - 1076-2752 .- 1536-5948. ; 51:1, s. 104-111
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- OBJECTIVE: To predict sickness absence by three health check-up models. METHODS: A study group of 821 participants from the public sector in Sweden where three health check-up models were compared 1) the limited variable model including smoking, body mass index, blood pressure, and cholesterol, 2) the several variable model including smoking, waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, relation between low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins, serum triglycerides, and fitness test, and 3) Self-rated health measured by one single question. Sickness absence data during 1 year was delivered from the employer. RESULTS: The three models served their purpose to predict sickness absence. CONCLUSIONS: The self-rated health-model with one single question has as good quality in predestination as more complicated models. This may have an implication for cost-effective procedures in occupational health services.
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