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EDITORIAL
Worker health
Workplace interventions
Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Dr L A M Elders
Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands; l.elders@erasmusmc.nl
Do they matter in return to work after absenteeism because of low back pain?
Keywords: absenteeism; return to work; low back pain; ergonomics
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Low back pain is a common health condition in working populations. Considering the lifetime prevalence of 60–85%, it will eventually affect almost everyone in life, men and women equally. In the majority of patients low back pain is a self-limiting condition, from which 90% of all patients are expected to recover in about six weeks. Hence, it has been suggested that prevention should focus more on preventing disability resulting from low back pain than on preventing the onset of back pain.1 As a result, duration of sickness absence is increasingly being used as a health parameter of interest to study the consequences of disability in occupational groups and to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention. Workers remaining off work after 2–3 months are responsible for the majority of the associated health care costs and have a substantial risk for long term disability.1 Thus, identifying those workers on sickness absence
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