ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2012
Policy and practice of work ability: a negotiation of responsibility in organizing return to work.
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- Role Perception and Needs of Employers of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Regarding the Return-to-Work of Long-Term Sick-Listed Employees.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Authorization to Disclose: How Occupational Physicians Interpret Confidentiality in Return-to-Work Negotiations.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2026Article
- No longer alone.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2025Article
- Cooperation in Return-to-work Interventions for Common Mental Disorders: An Ideal Theory Analysis of Actors, Goals, and Ethical Obstacles.Health care analysis : HCA : journal of health philosophy and policy · 2025Article
- Return-to-Work Coordinators' Perceptions of Their Roles Relative to Workers: A Discourse Analysis.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2024Article
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- Work ability meetings - Challenges and Resolutions, a survey to Finnish occupational physicians.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Work as an arena for health-Supervisors' experiences with attending to employees' sick leave and return-to-work process.PloS one · 2023Article
- Work Interventions Within Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programs (IPRP) - Frequency, Patient Characteristics, and Association with Self-Rated Work Ability.Journal of pain research · 2023Article
- Swedish managers' experience-based understanding of the Capacity to work in employees with Common Mental Disorders: a Focus Group Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- A Standpoint Approach to Return-to-Work Coordination: Understanding Union Roles.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2022Article
- Aligning stakeholders' understandings of the return-to-work process: a qualitative study on workplace meetings in inpatient multimodal occupational rehabilitation.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2021Article
- Qualitative Evidence from Studies of Interventions Aimed at Return to Work and Staying at Work for Persons with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Development and content validity of the Abilitator: a self-report questionnaire on work ability and functioning aimed at the population in a weak labour market position.BMC public health · 2020Article
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- Women with Neck Pain on Long-Term Sick Leave-Approaches Used in the Return to Work Process: A Qualitative Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2017Article
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Abstract
purposeIn welfare policy and practical work it is unclear what the concept of work ability involves and assessments may be different among involved actors, partly due to a lack of theoretical research in relation to regulations and practice. Based on theoretical and legal aspects of work ability the aim of the study is to analyze stakeholders' perspectives on work ability in local practice by studying multi-stakeholder meetings.
methodsThe material comprises nine digitally recorded multi-stakeholder meetings. Apart from the sick-listed individual, representatives from the public Social Insurance Agency, health care, employers, public employment service and the union participated in the meeting. The material was analyzed using qualitative content analysis.
resultsThree perspectives on work ability were identified: a medical perspective, a workplace perspective and a regulatory perspective. The meetings developed into negotiations of responsibility concerning workplace adjustments, rehabilitation efforts and financial support. Medical assessments served as objective expert statements to legitimize stakeholders' perspectives on work ability and return to work.
conclusionsAlthough the formal goal of the status meeting was to facilitate stakeholder collaboration, the results demonstrates an unequal distribution of power among cooperating actors where the employers had the "trump card" due to their possibilities to offer workplace adjustments. The employer perspective often determined whether or not persons could return to work and if they had work ability.
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