Secondary abstract: |
Introduction: Absence from work represents a great financial burden, involving employers, employees as well as the state. There are several reasons for missing days from work, such as musculoskeletal injuries, pregnancy, cardiovascular diseases, neoplasms, respiratory sickness and so forth. The main objectives of this thesis are to present legal regulations of sick leave and data analysis from 2014 to 2018.
Methods: Literature review encompasses evidence-based medical findings, comprising pertinent research papers, journals and books. In the second, research part, we used a quantitative statistical method to analyse results.
Results: We found that the most common reason for labour absenteeism is musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. From 2017 to 2018 the number of missing days due to the aforementioned factor increased by almost half a million. Side by side comparison with injuries and poisoning outside working hours reveals a 33 % increased numbers of MSK conditions. Besides, MSK illness is six times more frequent than gastrointestinal sickness. Statistical analyse also showed that family care is consistently the most common reason for the highest numbers of sick leave during the five years period time. Interestingly, in this time the number of sick leave markedly increased by 250.000 cases.
Discussion and conclusion: Finally, we can confirm that our results go along with those who conducted similar epidemiological studies prior to this one. According to the trend that is happening in the last years we can conclude that we should establish efficient preventive methods to drop the rate of sickness and therefore reduce the absence from work. We should also consider the optimisation of the rehabilitation process so patients could return to work in a shorter period time. |