Het bevorderen van duurzame arbeidsparticipatie is een kerntaak voor paramedici en arboprofessionals. In sociaal opzicht is arbeidsparticipatie belangrijk omdat het bijdraagt aan zelfstandigheid en zelfrespect. Maar niet iedereen kan een baan vinden of houden. Bovendien zullen door de stijgende pensioenleeftijd …

To examine to what extent the concept and the domains of participation as defined in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) are represented in general cancer-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instruments. Using the ICF linking rules, two coders independently …

Overgewicht is momenteel het snelst groeiende volksgezondheidsprobleem in Nederland. Uit eerder onderzoek blijkt dat werknemers met overgewicht twee maal zo vaak verzuimen en minder productief zijn dan collegas zonder overgewicht. Om overgewicht bij werknemers aan te pakken, of liever nog te voorkómen, …

In the Netherlands educational programs exist to train physical therapists (PTs) to treat employees with work-related complaints of the movement system. Contrary to occupational physical therapists working in workplaces, these professional work mainly in primary healthcare. WPT2011 Research Report Abstratc …

Employees with a chronic disease often encounter problems at work because of their chronic disease. The current paper describes the development of a self-management programme based on the Chronic Disease Self-Management programme (CDSMP) of Stanford University to help employees with a chronic somatic …

OBJECTIVE: Based on prospective and retrospective disease cohort studies, the aim of this review was to determine common prognostic factors for work disability among employees with rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes mellitus, and ischemic heart disease (IHD). …

PURPOSE: A systematic evaluation of the literature to identify health and contextual factors associated with employment in patients with neuromuscular diseases (NMD) and to perform a best evidence synthesis, taking into account the design of studies, methodological quality and the statistical significance …