Socioeconomic differences in recruitment and sickness absence in a large NHS health organisation: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study investigates the distribution of the workforce of one large National Health Service (NHS) employer in relation to socioeconomic deprivation and how sickness absence rates varied across these levels of deprivation.

Design

Share of the working age population that was employed at the NHS organisation mapped by area deprivation. The study used negative binomial regression models to investigate the extent to which wage level, occupational group and area deprivation were associated with sickness absence among employees.

Setting

The study used electronic staff records (2018-2019) of a large NHS organisation in the North West of England.

Results

In the most deprived areas, an additional person per 1000 working age population were employed at this N

SUBMITTER: Daras K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9058785 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature