Workplace gender composition and sickness absence: A register-based study from Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

This study aimed to examine the association between gender composition in the workplace and sickness absence days during a one-year period.

Methods

The study population was drawn from the Northern Swedish Cohort (wave 3; 2007) by Statistics Sweden and consisted of all participants belonging to a specific workplace (n=837) as well as all co-workers at the workplace of the participants (n=132,464; 67,839 women and 64,625 men). Exposure was the gender composition of the workplace, and outcome was cumulative sickness absence days (⩾90 days or not) during 2007, provided through a link to the Database for Health Insurance and Labour Marked Studies of Statistics Sweden. Covariates were gender, age, educational level and branch of industry from the same dat

SUBMITTER: Haukenes I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11308254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature