ArticleEnvironmental health and preventive medicine2021
Effect of professional certification on employees' return-to-work rate after occupational injuries in Korea: focusing on vulnerable groups.
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- The effects and outcomes of the occupational medicine and rehabilitation program for occupational injury subjects - the preliminary results of the One-Stop to Help All-labors (OSHA) Program.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Resuming work roles after injury in a low-income context: Multiple factors influencing the return to work outcomes.PloS one · 2024Article
- The Relationship between Hospital Selection by Employer and Disabilities in Occupational Accidents in Korea.Safety and health at work · 2022Article
- Time to Return to Work After an Occupational Injury and Its Prognostic factors Among Employees of Large-Scale Metal Manufacturing Facilities in Ethiopia: A Retrospective Cohort.Environmental health insights · 2022Article
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backgroundOne effective way to improve return-to-work (RTW) performance may be to convince the employer that the worker has the necessary skills. The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of having a professional certification among workers injured in occupational injuries on their return to work.
methodsThe Panel Study of Workers' Compensation Insurance (PSWCI) targets workers who completed medical care in 2012 after an occupational injury. The study population (n = 2000) was stratified by gender, age, region, disability grade, and rehabilitation service use. A total of 1458 workers were finally selected for this study. The effect of having a certification on RTW status was calculated with an odds ratio and 95% confidence intervals using binomial and multinomial logistic regression analyses. In the binomial logistic regression analysis, the RTW group was made up as a combination of the return to original work and the reemployment groups.
resultsThe ORs of RTW among those with a certification compared to those without certification were 1.38 (1.16-1.65) in Model 1, 1.25 (1.05-1.50) in Model 2, and 1.22 (1.01-1.47) in Model 3. Among female workers with a certification, the OR of RTW was 4.60 (2.68-7.91), that of return to original work was 3.21 (1.74-5.91), and that of reemployment was 5.85 (3.34-10.27). Among daily workers with a certification, the OR of RTW was 1.32 (1.03-1.69) and that of reemployment was 1.37 (1.07-1.76).
conclusionIn conclusion, injured workers with a certification generally had a higher RTW rate. In particular, the RTW rate was higher among female workers and daily workers with a certification than among those without.
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