Employer Policies and Practices to Manage and Prevent Disability: Foreword to the Special Issue.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Employer policies and practices have been shown to impact workplace disability, but research in this area has waned in recent years despite an aging workforce, a growing prevalence of chronic health conditions, and a larger proportion of working-age adults on permanent work disability in many jurisdictions. The purpose of this article is to describe the background rationale and methodology for an invited conference designed to improve research of employer strategies to curtail work disability. Methods A multidisciplinary team of 26 international researchers with published research in employer-based disability management or related fields were invited to attend a 3-day conference in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. The overall goal was to review the status of current research of workp

SUBMITTER: Shaw WS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5104772 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature