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Kristina Bengtsson Boström

Associate professor

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Diagnoses have the greatest impact on variation in sick-leave certification rate among primary-care patients in Sweden: A multilevel analysis including patient, physician and primary health-care centre levels.

Author

  • Karin Starzmann
  • Per Hjerpe
  • Sofia Dalemo
  • Henrik Ohlsson
  • Cecilia Björkelund
  • Kristina Bengtsson Boström

Summary, in English

The aims of this study were to determine and evaluate simultaneously the importance of factors known to influence sick-leave certification such as the sick leave-related diagnoses, the patients' socio-economic status, and characteristics of the physicians.

Department/s

  • Social Epidemiology
  • Centre for Economic Demography
  • Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
  • Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

704-712

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Volume

43

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Social Epidemiology
  • Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology
  • Genomics, Diabetes and Endocrinology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-1905