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  • Occupational Health
  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Sickness absence presents significant public health challenges, impacting employee well-being and incurring substantial costs.
  • Effective strategies for sickness absence management require understanding duration and recovery patterns across diverse demographic and diagnostic groups.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze sickness absence duration and recovery rates based on diagnosis and gender.
  • To identify differences in recovery trajectories between men and women for various medical conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a large dataset of over 5 million sick-listed employees from 2010-2020.
  • Classified cases by diagnosis and gender, employing descriptive statistics and survival analysis for recovery rate determination.

Main Results:

  • Significant variations in sickness absence duration and recovery rates were observed across diagnostic and gender groups.
  • Mental and musculoskeletal disorders exhibited the longest absence durations.
  • Women generally had longer sickness absence durations and lower initial recovery rates than men, especially within the first three months.

Conclusions:

  • Women consistently experienced longer average sickness absence durations than men across most diagnostic categories.
  • Lower initial recovery rates in women for mental and musculoskeletal disorders were noted, with convergence of recovery rates between genders over time.