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Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) has a history of about 50 yr, and is the oldest social insurance system in Korea. After more than 20 times of revision improvements in benefits, its contents and claim systems have been upgraded. It became the protector of injured workers and their families, and at the same time became the system which could cope with both financial burden of employers and their responsibilities. However, there are some issues to be reformed to upgrade the IACI: 1) the problems in the approval system of occupational diseases, 2) quality improvement of workers'...
Boden, Leslie I. (2012). Reexamining workers' compensation: A human rights perspective. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 55 (6): 483-486 Injured workers, particularly those with more severe injuries, have long experienced workers' compensation systems as stressful and demeaning, have found it difficult to obtain benefits, and, when able to obtain benefits, have found them inadequate. Moreover, the last two decades have seen a substantial erosion of the protections offered by workers' compensation. State after state has erected additional barriers to benefit receipt, making the...
Forst, Linda et coll. (2012). Medical Interpretation for Immigrant Workers. New Solutions: A Journal of Environment and Occupational Health Policy , 22(1): 37-50. Foreign-born workers have high rates of occupational mortality and morbidity, despite downward trends for the U.S. workforce overall. They have limited access to health care services. Medical interpreters (MIs) facilitate care of acutely injured, low-English-proficiency (LEP) patients, including those sustaining occupational injuries. Our goal was to assess the potential for MIs to serve as advocates of LEP patients injured at work and...
The role of income and insurance Study design:We analyzed longitudinal data on secondary outcomes from participants in a telerehabilitation study.Objectives:To examine the factors affecting return to productive activities and employment and the time to these events following a spinal cord injury (SCI).Setting:A large southeastern rehabilitation hospital in the United States.Methods:We used hazard regression models to analyze data from newly injured people (n=111) participating in an educational intervention post discharge who were followed for up to 2 years. Outcomes were time to return to productive...
An international perspective Background: Workers' compensation systems are among the most generous disability insurance systems in North America, although they are also known to be potentially adversarial and may have iatrogenic effects on claimants. This article examines issues to be considered to ensure fair compensation provided in a way that respects the dignity of workers. Methods: An overview of the literature on characteristics and effects of workers' compensation systems is followed by an analysis based on classic legal methods, including those of comparative law, complemented with...
Spieler, Emily A. et coll. (sous presse). The lack of correspondence between work-related disability and receipt of workers' compensation benefits. American Journal of Industrial Medicine. Background: Previous studies suggest that many persons with disabilities caused by work do not receive workers' compensation benefits. Methods: Data from surveys of persons with disabilities were used to estimate the proportion of disability due to work-related injuries and diseases. Studies examining the proportion of workers with work-related disability who received workers' compensation benefits...
Vous voulez connaître les tous derniers résultats de recherche portant sur le lien entre l'augmentation des exigences psychologiques au travail et la dépression; vous voulez en savoir davantage sur l'impact de la recherche sur le développement du nouveau programme ontarien de réadaptation au travail; vous voulez en savoir davantage sur les politiques de la Californie à l'égard des travailleurs ayant une incapacité de longue durée; enfin, vous voulez connaître les nouveaux outils d'aide au retour au travail développés...
Stååhl, Christian et al. (2011). Swedish rehabilitation professionals' perspectives on work ability assessments in a changing sickness insurance system. Disability & Rehabilitation , 33 (15-16): 1373-1382. Purpose . Changes in the Swedish sickness insurance system shifts focus from return-to-work to labour market reintegration. This article analyses Swedish rehabilitation professionals' perspectives on how the changed regulations affect practice, with a special focus on work ability assessments. Methods . Two groups of representatives (( n == 15)) from organizations...
Van Rijssen, H. J. et al. (2011). A Typology of Sick-Listed Claimants to Improve Communication Skills for Social Insurance Physicians during Medical Disability Assessment Interviews. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 21 (1): 66-75. Introduction Role play with standardised simulated patients is often included in communication training. However, regarding physician-patient encounters in medical disability assessment interviews it is unclear what should be included in the scenarios for actors. The first objective of this study was to determine which types of medical disability claimants can...
Eleanor L. Wray et Patricia A. Mortenson (2011). Cultural competence in occupational therapists working in early intervention therapy programs. Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy , 78(3): Description. La compétence culturelle favorise l’atteinte de résultats équitables en matière de soins de santé et permet de veiller à ce que les ergothérapeutes aident leurs clients à réaliser des activités quotidiennes adaptées à leur culture. Toutefois, on ne sait pas vraiment dans quelle mesure les ergothérapeutes...
Cifuentes, Manuel et al. (2011). Health Maintenance Care in Work-Related Low Back Pain and Its Association With Disability Recurrence. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine , 53 (4): 396–404. Objectives: To compare occurrence of repeated disability episodes across types of health care providers who treat claimants with new episodes of work-related low back pain (LBP). Method: A total of 894 cases followed 1 year using workers’ compensation claims data. Provider types were defined for the initial episode of disability and subsequent episode of health maintenance care....
People with Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD) often experience pain and disability for extended periods of time. A large proportion of these people will seek treatment through a compensation process. Rarely is data related to people's health collected within the compensation process making it difficult to identify those that are at risk of delayed recovery and appropriately direct interventions. Study objective: To compare people with WAD who have recovered with those that have not, within 3 months of injury and identify potential predictors of poorer health and non-recovery to inform claim...
We retrospectively assessed time off work after rotator cuff repair, in relation with the compensation system and the shoulder loading demand at work. The Belgian insurance system distinghuises three main financial compensation systems for time off work. Patients with a work-related accident receive the highest compensation. A second group includes employees suffering a private accident or a chronic rotator cuff tear. Self-employed workers receive the lowest compensation. Work-demand on the shoulder was graded level I to IV according to the Iannotti classification. From a series of 201 young patients...
There are many opportunities for health professionals to enhance their roles as advocates for individuals returning to work and advocates for change to policies and practices. Overall, it is important for advocates to be aware of the multiple stakeholders involved in the return to work process and to adopt a multipronged approach that considers the immediate needs of individual workers as well as the long term needs to create more inclusive and accommodating workplace environments. In addition, health care professionals are well positioned to advance the needs of disabled workers and to offer solutions...
Few Canadian data sources allow the examination of disparities by ethnicity, language, or immigrant status in occupational exposures or health outcomes. However, it is possible to document the mechanisms that can create disparities, such as the over-representation of population groups in high-risk jobs. We evaluated, in the Montréal context, the relationship between the social composition of jobs and their associated risk level. Methods We used data from the 2001 Statistics Canada census and from Québec's workers' compensation board for 2000-2002 to characterize job categories...
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