Title Sickness, disability and work : breaking the barriers : a synthesis of findings across OECD coutnries

Published Paris : OECD, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (165 pages) : color illustrations Contents The economic context for disability policy. -- Key trends and outcomes in sickness and disability. -- The direction of recent disability policy reforms. -- Transforming disability benefits into an employment instrument -- Activating employers and medical professionals. -- Getting the right services to the right people at the right time Summary Too many workers leave the labour market permanently due to health problems or disability, and too few people with reduced work capacity manage to remain in employment. This is a social and economic tragedy common to virtually all OECD countries. It also raises an apparent paradox that needs explaining: Why is it that the average health status is improving, yet large numbers of people of working age are leaving the workforce to rely on long-term sickness and disability benefits? This report, the last in the OECD series Sickness, Disability and Work: Breaking the Barriers, synthesises the project's findings and explores the possible factors behind the paradox described above. It highlights the roles of institutions and policies and concludes that higher expectations and better incentives for the main actors - workers, employers, doctors, public agencies and service providers - are crucial. Based on a review of good and bad practices across OECD countries, this report suggests a series of major reforms are needed to promote employment of people with health problems. The report examines a number of critical policy choices between: tightening inflows and raising outflows from disability benefit, and promoting job retention and new hiring of people with health problems. It questions the need for distinguishing unemployment and disability as two distinct contingencies, emphasises the need for a better evidence base, and underlines the challenges for policy implementation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record Subject Disability insurance claimants -- OECD countries Labor market -- OECD countries Therapeutics. Personnel management. National health services. Income. Diagnosis. Insurance. Medical care. Social sciences. Organization. Economics. Health services administration. Disability evaluation. Vocational rehabilitation. Sick leave. Workers' compensation. Disability insurance. Sociology. Diagnosis -- Methodology Financing, Government Human Activities Therapeutics Personnel Management Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Health Services Income Diagnosis Insurance Financing, Organized Delivery of Health Care Social Sciences Organization and Administration Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services Economics Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment Health Care Economics and Organizations Health Services Administration Socioeconomic Factors Work Disability Evaluation Rehabilitation, Vocational Sick Leave Workers' Compensation Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures Insurance, Disability Population Characteristics Rehabilitation Sociology Salaries and Fringe Benefits Work -- psychology Patient Care federal aid. diagnosis. insurance. social sciences. economics. labor. sociology. treating (health care function) Workers' compensation Vocational rehabilitation Therapeutics Sociology Social sciences Sick leave Personnel management Organization National health services Medical care Insurance Income Health services administration Economics Disability insurance Disability evaluation Diagnosis Disability insurance claimants Labor market OECD countries Form Electronic book Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ISBN 9789264088856 9264088857 1282915193 9781282915190 9786612915192 6612915196

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