Cohort profile: the Ontario Life After Workplace Injury Study (OLAWIS).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The substantial economic burden of work-related injury and illness, borne by workers, employers and social security programmes, is primarily attributed to the durations of work disability among workers whose recovery requires a period of absence from work, with the majority of costs arising from the minority of workers with the longest duration absences. The objective of the Ontario Life After Workplace Injury Study is to describe the long-term health and labour market outcomes of workers disabled by work injury or illness after they are no longer receiving benefits or services from the work disability insurance authority.

Participants

Workers disabled by a work-related injury or illness were recruited from a sample frame of disability benefit claimants with oversamp

SUBMITTER: Mustard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8422311 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature