Illness narratives in the workplace

2018 ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Ernst von Kardorff
Keyword(s):  
Sick Leave ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
Mixed Method Study ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Staying At Work

Why is there so little research on illness narratives in the workplace albeit the significant role of labour in society, the considerable increase of illnesses at work and high rates of sick-leave and early retirement? The importance of reconstructing illness narratives in the workplace for prevention, timely support, coping and staying at work is emphasized. It will further be shown how illness narratives are embedded in narrations on working conditions and return to work experiences. The mixed-method study focused on return to work trajectories of participants of vocational retraining. On this basis, this chapter discusses strategies of successful and failed arrangements in the workplace.

scholarly journals Occupational medicine’s role in return to work of the nurse bitten by belgian sheperds: Report of a case

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Lalić Hrvoje ◽  
Šutić Ivana ◽  
Tominić Jana
Keyword(s):  
Sick Leave ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Occupational Medicine ◽  
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory ◽  
Personality Inventory ◽  
Stress Perception ◽  
Work Assessment ◽  
Verbal Test ◽  
Back To Work

The aim is to accentuate the role of Occupational medicine (OM) when establishing fitness for work. A nurse, now 55, in 2014 was attacked by two Belgian Shepherds whilst picking asparagus in woods. She suffered scalp (still today partially without hair) and thorax injuries and on extremities partial and permanent muscles loss. She was treated by a surgeon, neurologist, psychologist, and psychiatrist. Applied were Cognitive Non – Verbal Test (CNT), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-201), Stress Perception Scale (PSS-10) and Beck’s depression inventory. The patient is on sick leave since March 2014. In December 2015 she came to OM specialist for work assessment. After suffering polytrauma it was suggested she takes on a less demanding job for the beginning of reintegration. Although unstable and walking with a crutch, the patient expressed strong will to go back to work. The management at the time did not find appropriate workplace for her, so she stayed on sick leave until April 2017. Then the new OM assessment was demanded. CNT showed that general intellectual efficacy is preserved and that the functioning is on the average level. MMPI showed increased levels for hypochondria, anxiety, aggressiveness, schizoid behavior and conversion. At the end, it was concluded that at present the patient was not capable to work as a nurse for now, but she could work as a clerk. The patient fully accepted that decision as well as the new management.

scholarly journals Work-retirement transitions and mental health: A longitudinal analysis of the role of social protection generosity in 11 countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 140349482110421
Author(s):  
Ola Sjöberg
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Structural Equation Models ◽  
Early Exit ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Working Lives

Aims: This study aimed to analyse the effect of work-retirement transitions on post-retirement mental health in individuals with different working conditions in late working life. The focus was on transitions that involve the use of social protection schemes to bridge the gap between the exit from work and retirement, and the extent to which the generosity of such schemes is related to mental health after retirement. Methods: Individual-level panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe for 11 European countries were analysed using structural equation models. A total of 1642 individuals who worked in 2004 or 2007 and who retired in 2013 or 2015 were included in the analyses. The outcome measure was mental health as measured by the EURO-D scale. Results: Respondents with a ‘high strain’ and ‘passive’ work situation have a significantly higher likelihood of using social protection schemes, such as early retirement, sickness, disability and invalidity schemes before retirement. The generosity of such schemes has a significant positive relation to post-retirement mental health. Conclusions: This study shows that the generosity of early exit pathways is important for post-retirement mental health, especially for individuals with adverse working conditions at the end of their working lives.

The Role of Muslim Women in Civil Society In Promoting Values and Principles for Building Peace: Action Guide from The Qur’ān

Sains Insani ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-36
Author(s):  
Che Amnah Bahari ◽  
Fatimah Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Pluralistic Society ◽  
Women And Children

The whole world, the Muslim in particular has witnessed conflicts in different areas, which have hindered the developmental efforts of the nations concerned. It should be learned that most victims of these conflicts are women and children. This article attempts to elaborate the role of Muslims Women as a crucial segment in civil society in initiating peace building through nurturing process. It maintains that the adoption of the principles and values derived from the Qur’ān and Sunnah of the Prophet is necessary as a process of lifelong learning.  Those identified values constituted the framework of this article and it adopts the textual analysis method.   This article concludes that through the implementation of those values and frameworks for peace building, women as one of the important segments of civil society are able to play significant role towards initiating peace building and promoting peaceful co-existence in pluralistic society. Abstrak: Dunia Islam khususnya telah menyaksikan konflik di pelbagai daerah yang berbeza. Konflik ini telah menghalang usaha kearah pembangunan Kawasan yang berkenaan. Kebanyakan mangsa konflik ini adalah wanita dan kanak-kanak. Artikel ini cuba untuk menghuraikan peranan wanita Islam sebagai segmen penting dalam masyarakat madani dalam membangun proses kedamaian dengan mendidik dan memupuk prinsip dan nilai murni janaan al-Qur’an. Penggunaan prinsip dan nilai yang dikutip dari ayat-ayat Qur'an dan hadis Rasulullah adalah keperluan yang mendesak sebagai wadah bagi proses pembelajaran sepanjang hayat. Nilai-nilai yang dikenal pasti merupakan rangka kerja artikel ini, dan metod yang dirujuk adalah analisis teks. Artikel ini menyimpulkan bahawa melalui pelaksanaan nilai-nilai dan kerangka kerja Islam bagi proses kedamaian, wanita Islam dalam masyarakat madani mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam memulakan pembinaan keamanan dan menggalakkan kehidupan yang harmonis, sejahtera dan saling bantu membantu dalam masyarakat majmuk.

POLICY CHANGE – THE ROLE OF IDEAS AND POLICY ENTREPRENEURS

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Arwanto Arwanto ◽  
Wike Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Framing ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Understanding policy process involves many distinctive approaches. The most common are institutional, groups or networks, exogenous factors, rational actors, and idea-based approach. This paper discussed the idea-based approach to explain policy process, in this case policy change. It aims to analyse how ideas could assist people to understand policy change. What role do they play and why are they considered as fundamental element? It considers that ideas are belong to every policy actor, whether it is individual or institution. In order to answer these questions, this paper adopts Kingdon’s multi streams approach to analyse academic literatures. Through this approach, the relationship between ideas and policy change can be seen clearer. Ideas only can affect in policy change if it is agreed and accepted by policy makers. Therefore the receptivity of ideas plays significant role and it emerges policy entrepreneurs. They promote ideas (through problem framing, timing, and narrative construction) and manipulate in order to ensure the receptivity of ideas. Although policy entrepreneurs play significant role, political aspects remains the most important element in the policy process. Keywords: policy change, ideas, idea-based approach, Kingdon’s multiple streams, policy entrepreneurs.

A Good Sentencing Precedent is Hard to Find

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 138-144
Author(s):  
Brian A. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Federal Sentencing

In federal criminal cases, federal law requires that judges consider the sentences other courts have imposed in factually similar matters. Courts and parties, however, face significant challenges in finding applicable sentencing precedents because judges do not typically issue written sentencing opinions, and transcripts of sentencings are not readily available in advanced searchable databases. At the same time, particularly since the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in United States v. Booker, sentencing precedent has come to play a significant role in federal sentencing proceedings. By way of example, this article discusses recent cases involving defendants with gambling addictions, and recent cases involving college admissions or testing fraud. The article explores the ways the parties in those cases have used sentencing precedent in their advocacy, as well as the ways the courts involved have used sentencing precedent to justify their decisions. Given the important role of sentencing precedent in federal criminal cases, the article finally looks at ways in which the body of sentencing law could be made more readily available to parties and courts alike.

Current state and main directions of preservation and strengthening of health of the working population of Russia

2020 ◽  
pp. 527-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. Bukhtiyarov
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Production Environment ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
The Past ◽  
Production Factors ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Russian Federation

The article presents the results of the analysis of health, working conditions and prevalence of adverse production factors, the structure of the detected occupational pathology in the working population of the Russian Federation. The article presents Statistical data on the dynamics of the share of workplaces of industrial enterprises that do not meet hygienic standards, occupational morbidity in 2015-2018 for the main groups of adverse factors of the production environment and the labor process. The indicators of occupational morbidity over the past 6 years in the context of the main types of economic activity, individual subjects of the Russian Federation, classes of working conditions, levels of specialized occupational health care. The role of the research Institute of occupational pathology and occupational pathology centers in solving organizational, methodological and practical tasks for the detection, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention of occupational diseases is shown. The basic directions of activity in the field of preservation and strengthening of health of workers, and also safety at a workplace are defined.

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