Gorman Erin, Yu Shicheng, Alamgir Hasanat
Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Healthcare, BC, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Work. 2010;35(2):117-23. doi: 10.3233/WOR-2010-0963.
To determine the demographic and work characteristics of healthcare workers who were more likely to take sickness absences from work in British Columbia, Canada.
Payroll data were analyzed for three health regions. Sickness absence rates were determined per person-year and then compared across demographic and work characteristics using multivariate Poisson regression models. The direct costs to the employer due to sickness absences were also estimated.
Female, older, full-time workers, long-term care workers and those with a lower hourly wage were more likely to take sickness absences and had similar trends with respect to the costs due to sickness absence. For occupations, licensed practical nurses, care aides and facility support workers had higher rates of sickness absence. Registered nurses, and those workers paid high hourly wages were associated with highest sickness related costs.
It is important to understand the demographic and work characteristics of those workers who are more likely to take sickness absences in order to make sure that they are not experiencing additional hazards at work or facing detrimental workplace conditions. Policy makers need to establish healthy, safe and in turn more productive workplaces. Further research is needed on how interventions can reduce sickness absence.
确定在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省更有可能因病缺勤的医护人员的人口统计学和工作特征。
对三个卫生区域的工资数据进行分析。计算每人每年的病假缺勤率，然后使用多变量泊松回归模型对人口统计学和工作特征进行比较。还估计了雇主因病假缺勤产生的直接成本。
女性、年龄较大的全职员工、长期护理人员以及时薪较低的人员更有可能因病缺勤，并且在病假缺勤成本方面有类似趋势。在职业方面，持牌执业护士、护理助理和设施支持人员的病假缺勤率较高。注册护士以及时薪高的员工与最高的病假相关成本相关。
了解那些更有可能因病缺勤的员工的人口统计学和工作特征很重要，以确保他们在工作中不会面临额外风险或不利的工作场所条件。政策制定者需要建立健康、安全且进而更高效的工作场所。关于干预措施如何减少病假缺勤还需要进一步研究。
