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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

Absenteeism at Two Occupational Health Services in Belgium from 2014 to 2021.

Ilse Moerland, Nouchka Vervaet, Lode Godderis, Mathieu Versée, Marc Du Bois

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Analysis of sickness absenteeism in a public university: a temporal statistical study.Revista brasileira de medicina do trabalho : publicacao oficial da Associacao Nacional de Medicina do Trabalho-ANAMT
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Ilse MoerlandIDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, Interleuvenlaan 58, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-2915-2783
Nouchka VervaetCohezio, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, Bisschofsheimlaan 1-8, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Lode GodderisIDEWE, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, Interleuvenlaan 58, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium.
Mathieu VerséeCohezio, External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work, Bisschofsheimlaan 1-8, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.
Marc Du BoisCentre for Environment and Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-6326-4343

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Medical certification is often needed for absences of longer than one workday. The literature remains unclear as to whether this changes absenteeism. Earlier research found that the merging of two firms can augment or diminish short-term absenteeism. This study was conducted to examine whether prolonging self-certification or merging increases short-term absenteeism. Data from January 2014 to December 2021 were retrospectively collected from HR absenteeism files at two occupational health services in Belgium. Sickness periods of longer than 4 weeks were excluded. Company 1 started a merger in 2014, and company 2 prolonged of the self-certification period in 2018. The total full-time equivalents (FTEs) of company 1 increased by 6%, while company 2 had an increase of 28%. At company 1, there was a decline in absenteeism, while company 2 had an increase. The ARIMA (1, 0, 1) model provided a statistically significant local moving average (company 1: 0.123; company 2: 0.086) but no statistically significant parameters for the intervention (company 1: 0.007,

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Occupational HealthOccupational Health ServicesAbsenteeismBelgiumEmploymentHumansRetrospective Studiesabsenteeismmergeroccupational healthself-certification

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PMID36834356
PMCPMC9958659

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