scholarly journals Arbeidsongevallen met lichamelijk en geestelijk letsel en de relatie met ziekteverzuim

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Fekke Ybema ◽  
Karin Jettinghoff
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Physical Injury ◽  
Occupational Accident ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Large Database ◽  
The Past

Occupational accidents with physical and mental injury in relation with sickness absence Occupational accidents with physical and mental injury in relation with sickness absence The central question in this article is to what extent physical and mental injury due to an occupational accident are related to sickness absence. We analysed a large database with data from 10,075 Dutch employees, that is representative for employees in the Netherlands with regard to gender, age and branch of industry. The results show that employees with mental injury due to an occupational accident are absent from work for more days in the past 12 months than employees without an occupational accident or employees with physical injury due to an occupational accident. Moreover, employees with mental injury due to an occupational accident seem to underestimate their accident related absence, whereas employees with physical injury seem more accurate in the accident related absence they report.

scholarly journals Incidence of Occupational Accidents and Contributing Factors among Male Workers in an Electrical Distribution Company in Istanbul, Turkey

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zehra Kocyigit-Cakir ◽  
Ozlem Ozkan
Keyword(s):  
Incidence Rate ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Occupational Disease ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Electricity Distribution ◽  
Occupational Accident ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Distribution Company ◽  
Male Workers

Background: This study aimed to determine the incidence of occupational accidents among male workers in an electric power distribution company and to analyze the contributing factors. Methods: This prospective cohort study was conducted on 158 male workers from an electricity distribution company in Istanbul (Turkey) between October 2014 and June 2015 in two phases. In the first phase, the data were collected with the face-to-face interviews based on a questionnaire related to the occupational accidents and working conditions in the past year. Then, each worker was followed-up for four months for the occupational accident incidence. The data were analyzed using SPSS software. The degree and magnitude of association between dependent and independent variables were determined by Phi (Φ) and Cramer's V coefficient. Results: The incidence rate of self-reported occupational accidents was 47.5% in the past year. The incidence was found to be higher for those aged over 41 (51.7%, p=0.02), work in lighting and overhead line units (71.0% and 47.2%, p=0.04), have occupational disease (66.7%, p=0.01), and have witnessed any occupational accident in the electricity sector (66.1%, p<0.001). The incidence rate was moderately associated with the working unit (Cramer’sV=0.25), witnessing any occupational accident (Φ=0.29), and occupational disease (Φ=0.21). It was higher for those with shift work (52.0%; p=0.29) and with job insecurity (51.8%, p=0.11). The incidence rate of occupational accidents based on four-month follow-up was 0.53 person-year. The most frequent type of accident was explosion (14.3%), and the majority of the accidents resulted in injuries (78.6%). Conclusion: The incidence of occupational accidents among male workers in the electricity distribution company was higher than the national average. The accidents were significantly related to the working conditions.

scholarly journals Determinanten van arbeidsongevallen in Nederland: verschillen tussen een retrospectieve en prospectieve onderzoeksopzet

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lando L.J. Koppes ◽  
Marloes van der Klauw ◽  
Anita Venema
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Occupational Accidents ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Article ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Prospective Study Design

Determinants of occupational accidents in the Netherlands; differences between a retrospective and a prospective study design Determinants of occupational accidents in the Netherlands; differences between a retrospective and a prospective study design Research into the causes of occupational accidents is largely cross-sectional in nature, and has the limitation of possible reversed causality, as the consequences of occupational accidents can be interpreted as causes of the accidents. The current article examines the actual predictors of occupational accidents in the Netherlands using a prospective research design, and compares these predictors with the determinants of occupational accidents from a cross-sectional research design. To this end, longitudinal data from 9,889 employees who participated the Netherlands Working Conditions Cohort Study were analyzed. The results show that the differences in the determinants of occupational accidents in the past (retrospective) and the future (prospective) are limited. The factors that predict accidents are often similar to the factors associated with accidents that workers in the past have had. There are some factors that are an exception and are retrospectively, but not prospectively associated with the occurrence of an accident. Possibly, these are examples of reversed causality. The results moreover show which factors are actual prospective predictors of occupational accidents, and are therefore targets for policymakers and businesses for the prevention of occupational accidents.

Het heft in handen nemen

2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tinka van Vuuren ◽  
Jan Fekke Ybema
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Return To Work ◽  
Sickness Absence ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Occupational Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Active Contribution

Return to work of long-term absent employees: the view of Dutch employers on the amount own initiative of these employees Return to work of long-term absent employees: the view of Dutch employers on the amount own initiative of these employees T. van Vuuren & J.F. Ybema, Gedrag & Organisatie, volume 22, November 2009, nr. 4, pp. 371-391. Employees who are absent for a prolonged period of time are expected to actively contribute to their own return to work. The present study examines how employers rate the employees' own initiative for return to work following long-term sickness absence and how this initiative affects successful return to work. In this study, a sample of 1294 employers in the Netherlands were interviewed (69% response), 608 of whom had recent experience with one or more long-term absent employees. These employers were asked about their experiences and efforts to support the return to work of an employee who had been absent for an extended period of at least thirteen weeks during the past two years. The results of this survey showed that long-term sick employees who took initiatives themselves, were more likely to return to work successfully. The results further indicate that the degree to which the employee has taken personal initiatives tends to depend not only on individual characteristics, such as occupational level and possible elements of dysfunctioning before the sickness absence, but also on the activities undertaken by the employer to support the employee's return to work within the company. The conclusion is that an active contribution of both the absent employee and the employer enhances the likelihood of successful return to work.

scholarly journals Crucial Occupations during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Wage Trends leading up to the Pandemic in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Janietz ◽  
Herman Gerbert van de Werfhorst
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Dutch Government ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Occupational Groups ◽  
The Past ◽  
Long Term Consequences ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Substantial Heterogeneity ◽  
Over Time

In March 2020, the Dutch government defined a set of occupations that were designated as crucial for maintaining the basic functioning of society during the Covid-19 pandemic. A central question in the current public debate on work and pay is whether workers in crucial occupations have been sufficiently remunerated for their work over the past years. Using a combination of the Dutch labor force survey and register data during the period 2006-2019, we find that the wages of workers in crucial occupations have on average improved over time relative to the wages of workers in other occupations, although this development has stalled in recent years. At the same time, workers in crucial occupations earn less relative to comparable workers in other occupations within several industries, while they often earn more within major occupational groups. The analysis also reveals substantial heterogeneity in wage gaps and their trends across industries. We conclude by formulating some preliminary thoughts on the potential long-term consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic on the relationship between occupations and wages.

scholarly journals The evolution of trauma care in the Netherlands over 20 years

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Falco Hietbrink ◽  
Roderick M. Houwert ◽  
Karlijn J. P. van Wessem ◽  
Rogier K. J. Simmermacher ◽  
Geertje A. M. Govaert ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Trauma Care ◽  
Trauma System ◽  
Trauma Surgeon ◽  
Severely Injured ◽  
Severely Injured Patients ◽  
The Past ◽  
Level 1 ◽  
Trauma Surgeons ◽  
Injured Patients

Abstract Introduction In 1999 an inclusive trauma system was initiated in the Netherlands and a nationwide trauma registry, including all admitted trauma patients to every hospital, was started. The Dutch trauma system is run by trauma surgeons who treat both the truncal (visceral) and extremity injuries (fractures). Materials and Methods In this comprehensive review based on previous published studies, data over the past 20 years from the central region of the Netherlands (Utrecht) was evaluated. Results It is demonstrated that the initiation of the trauma systems and the governance by the trauma surgeons led to a region-wide mortality reduction of 50% and a mortality reduction for the most severely injured of 75% in the level 1 trauma centre. Furthermore, major improvements were found in terms of efficiency, demonstrating the quality of the current system and its constructs such as the type of surgeon. Due to the major reduction in mortality over the past few years, the emphasis of trauma care evaluation shifts towards functional outcome of severely injured patients. For the upcoming years, centralisation of severely injured patients should also aim at the balance between skills in primary resuscitation and surgical stabilization versus longitudinal surgical involvement. Conclusion Further centralisation to a limited number of level 1 trauma centres in the Netherlands is necessary to consolidate experience and knowledge for the trauma surgeon. The future trauma surgeon, as specialist for injured patients, should be able to provide the vast majority of trauma care in this system. For the remaining part, intramural, regional and national collaboration is essential

scholarly journals The Resolution of International Commercial Disputes – What Role (if any) for Continental Europe?

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Giesela Rühl
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Dispute Settlement ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
National Level ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Traditional Market ◽  
Commercial Courts

The past sixteen years have witnessed the proliferation of international commercial courts around the world. However, up until recently, this was largely an Asian and a Middle Eastern phenomenon. Only during the past decade have Continental European countries, notably Germany, France and the Netherlands, joined the bandwagon and started to create new judicial bodies for international commercial cases. Driven by the desire to attract high-volume commercial litigation, these bodies try to offer international businesses a better dispute settlement framework. But what are their chances of success? Will more international litigants decide to settle their disputes in these countries? In this essay, I argue that, despite its recently displayed activism, Continental Europe lags behind on international commercial courts. In fact, although the various European initiatives are laudable, most cannot compete with the traditional market leaders, especially the London Commercial Court, or with new rivals in Asia and the Middle East. If Continental Europe wants a role in the international litigation market, it must embrace more radical change. And this change will most likely have to happen on the European––not the national––level.

The Question of God’s Perfection

2021 ◽  
pp. 014610792110306
Author(s):  
Cornell Collin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
The State ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
World Religions ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Present Essay

Is God perfect? The recent volume entitled The Question of God’s Perfection stages a conversation on that topic between mostly Jewish philosophers, theologians, and scholars of rabbinic literature. Although it is neither a work of biblical theology nor a contribution to the theological interpretation of scripture, The Question of God’s Perfection yields stimulating results for these other, intersecting projects. After briefly describing the volume’s central question and contents, the present essay situates the volume’s offerings within the state of the biblical-theological and theological-interpretive fields. In its next section, it considers—and compares— The Question of God’s Perfection with one twentieth-century theological antecedent, the Dutch theologian K.H. Miskotte. In closing, it poses questions for ongoing discussion. The Question of God’s Perfection: Jewish and Christian Essays on the God of the Bible and Talmud, edited by Yoram Hazony & Dru Johnson. Philosophy of Religion – World Religions 8. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2019. ISBN 9789004387959

Toxicology and the vulnerable brain

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.R.A. Uges
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Forensic Toxicology ◽  
Symptomatic Treatment ◽  
Environmental Toxicology ◽  
Clinical Toxicology ◽  
Suicidal Attempt ◽  
Central Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cardio Vascular ◽  
The Brain

SummaryToxicology is one of the eldest areas of special attention in medicine and pharmacy. In the past, forensic toxicology was the most important part, but nowadays, at least in the Netherlands, the clinical, occupational and environmental toxicology have the centre of attention.The brain plays its own role in the clinical toxicology. There the intoxication can take place, it can be the basis of the peripheral symptoms of the intoxication or it can be the cause of the intoxication, e.g. at a suicidal attempt or the hospital addiction syndrome.The somatic treatment of an intoxicated patient includes in the first place the stabilization of the patient (cardio-vascular, ventilation and central effects); then the removal of the poison from the surroundings and out of the patient by different suitable methods and finally the symptomatic treatment, sometimes with antidotes.In the Netherlands, hardly any intoxication is fatal, when the patient arrives in the hospital in time, or euthanasia took place on purpose.

Editorial

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-2
Author(s):  
Chris Roseveare ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Patient Specific ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Single Individual ◽  
National Goal ◽  
Acute Medicine ◽  
North West ◽  
The Past

Clinicians working in acute medicine will be familiar with change. The speciality and the environment we work in has changed continually over the past 15 years – I often reflect that no two years have been the same since I started working in the field back in 1999. Change is important, in order to achieve best practice, but sustaining such improvements can be an enormous challenge. The regular turnover of medical staff, local management restructuring and the constantly shifting National goal posts often conspire against us. It is easy for ‘changefatigue’ to set in. Submissions to this journal often describe local audits and service improvement projects which have raised standards: a low baseline may result in a statistically significant improvement from a relatively small intervention – often an education programme or poster campaign to raise awareness of the problem. However, what happens next is far more important: can the improvement be sustained when the key driver behind the project – the enthusiast – moves on, after their 4 month block of acute medicine comes to an end? One year on, we are often back where we started. Two articles in this edition appear to have achieved the Holy Grail of sustainability. In the paper by Joanne Botten from Musgrove Park, door to antibiotic time was improved for patients with neutopaenic sepsis by introducing a system whereby the antibiotics could be administered without waiting for a prescription to be written. The combination of a neutropaenic sepsis alert card and a patient-specific direction empowered the nurses and patients to ensure administration within an hour of arrival in over 90% of cases, a figure which has been sustained for over a year. Sustainable change is often facilitated by modifications in paperwork, but crucially the project’s success was not reliant on a single individual. The value of engaging with the wider team is also shown in Gary Misselbook’s paper describing sustained improvement in the layout and utility of an AMU procedure room. The authors describe how repeated attempts by different registrars had failed to achieve more than temporary reorganisation; the change was only sustained when nursing, infection control and administrative staff became involved in the process. The multiprofessional nature of the AMU is one of its greatest assets – we would all do well to remember this when instigating change. On a similar note, observant readers may have noticed some changes to the editorial board of this journal – I am delighted to welcome Dr Tim Cooksley, acute physician from Manchester and Dr Prabath Nanayakkara from the VUMC in the Netherlands. Tim came through the acute medicine training programme in the North West and his role in the acute oncology service at the Christie Hospital as well as his active involvement in the SAMBA project over recent years brings an important perspective to the editorial team. Prabath has been heavily involved with the development of acute medicine in the Netherlands and co-hosted the successful SAMSTERDAM meeting in 2014. His international perspective will be welcome as we attempt to extend the reach of Acute Medicine to our European neighbours over the coming years. I am very grateful to Nik Patel, Mark Jackson and Ashwin Pinto for their help and support during the past decade and wish them well for the future.

The functions and positions of political parties in consociational democracies: theoretical and empirical contexts

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
O. Morhuniuk
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Party System ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Regimes ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Further Development

An article is devoted to the analysis of the functions and formats of political parties in consociational democracies. In particular, it is defined that parties that represent the interests of certain subcultures in society and that reach a consensus among themselves at the level of political agreements are called segmental. At the same time, parties that encapsulate different subgroups of the society that cooperate inside the party within main features of the consociational theory (grand coalition, mutual veto, proportionality in representations, and independence of segments or society subcultures) are called consociational. The theory of consociationalism has received a wide range of theoretical additions and criticism from political scientists over the past fifty years. And while political parties should have been, by definition, one of the key aspects of research within such democratic regimes (parties are part of large coalitions and agents of representation of certain subcultures), there is very scarce number of literature that focuses on this aspect. Therefore, the presented article provides a description of the functions of political parties that could be observed as inside their subcultures as well as in interaction with other segmental parties. Based on the experience of two European countries in the period of “classical” consociationalism (Belgium and the Netherlands), we explain the functions of the parties we have defined in such societies with examples of relevant consociational practices in them. Simultaneously with the analysis of segmental parties, the article also offers the characteristics of consociational parties. The emergence of such parties has its own institutional and historical features. The way of further development of the party system and the level of preservation of consociational practices makes it possible to understand the nature of changes in the societies. Similarly, the analysis of the forms of party competition and interaction between segmental parties makes it possible to outline the forms of those consociational changes that are taking place in the research countries.

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