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Predicting sickness absence-are extended health check-ups of any value? Comparisons of three individual risk models
Anna Falkenberg1, Mats Nyfjäll, Carina Bildt
1Department of Medical Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Objective:
To predict sickness absence by three health check-up models.
Methods:
A study group of 821 participants from the public sector in Sweden where three health check-up models were compared 1) the limited variable model including smoking, body mass index, blood pressure, and cholesterol, 2) the several variable model including smoking, waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, relation between low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins, serum triglycerides, and fitness test, and 3) Self-rated health measured by one single question. Sickness absence data during 1 year was delivered from the employer.
Results:
The three models served their purpose to predict sickness absence.
Conclusions:
The self-rated health-model with one single question has as good quality in predestination as more complicated models. This may have an implication for cost-effective procedures in occupational health services.
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