Article
Ergonomics
Ozgun Unal, Mahmut Akbolat, Mustafa Amarat, Suleyman Tilkilioglu
Summary: The study found that managers' commitment to OSH positively influences employees' safety awareness and competency, employees' involvement, and reporting culture. The involvement of employees serves as a mediating variable in the effect of managers' commitment to OSH on OSH performance, highlighting the importance of considering human factors in improving OSH.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND ERGONOMICS
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maria Jesus Avila-Gutierrez, Susana Suarez-Fernandez De Miranda, Francisco Aguayo-Gonzalez
Summary: This paper provides a historical review of the evolution of work, Vygotksy's theory of Activity, and the contributions of safety science to analyze the future opportunities in safety research during the transition to Industry 4.0. It also analyzes the Horizon 2020 strategies for Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) at the European level and proposes a model for deploying public policies and multi-level and multi-scale OSH 5.0 strategies within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Marat Rudakov, Elena Gridina, Juergen Kretschmann
Summary: This article discusses the role of risk-based thinking in occupational safety and health systems of mining companies, highlighting the persistent issue of occupational injuries despite measures taken. It traces the evolution of risk-based thinking and its implementation, providing examples of assessing OSH risks and opportunities. The study concludes that incorporating risk-based thinking into OSH management systems can be an effective tool for planning and implementation.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Akashdeep Singh Chauhan, Deepshikha Sharma, Abha Mehndiratta, Nidhi Gupta, Basant Garg, Amneet P. Kumar, Shankar Prinja
Summary: This study assessed the accuracy of results generated from adaptive HTA approaches for economic evaluation specific to the Indian context. The findings showed significant variations in adapted cost estimates while quality-adjusted life-years did not differ much. There is a need to interpret findings from aHTA methods with caution and develop more robust approaches for cost adjustment in the future.
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Odd Eirik Elden, Oddvar Uleberg, Marianne Lysne, Hege Selnes Haugdahl
Summary: This scoping review examines the current knowledge and identifies gaps in the knowledge base for cost-benefit analysis and safety evaluation of community paramedicine in rural areas. Three articles were included in the review for cost-benefit analysis, with two of them showing positive cost-effectiveness. However, no articles met the inclusion criteria for safety evaluation.
Article
Engineering, Industrial
David W. Wilbanks, Yousif Abulhassan, Jan K. Wachter
Summary: This study examines the characteristics of distance learning United States OSH M.S. programs and job postings for OSH employment. The research aims to determine if there is consensus in the required curricula and employer demands. The results show diversity in OSH M.S. courses and the skills sought by employers. Recommendations are provided to promote OSH occupational closure.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Valerie N. E. Schuermans, Ruud Droeghaag, Sem M. M. Hermans, Anouk Y. J. M. Smeets, Inge J. M. H. Caelers, Mickael Hiligsmann, Wouter L. W. van Hemert, Silvia Evers, Henk van Santbrink, Expert Grp
Summary: Despite guidelines for economic evaluations, there is heterogeneity in spine surgery evaluations due to differing levels of adherence and lack of disease-specific recommendations. The heterogeneity in study design and outcome measurements limits comparability. This study aims to create disease-specific recommendations and discuss methodological challenges for economic evaluations in spine surgery.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mark W. Moses, Julius Korir, Wu Zeng, Anita Musiega, Joyce Oyasi, Ruoyan Lu, Jane Chuma, Laura Di Giorgio
Summary: The public healthcare systems at the county-level in Kenya generally performed well, with delays in the flow of funding identified as a significant factor affecting their performance. This highlights the importance of establishing a strong and robust public financial management system to ensure the benefits of Universal Health Coverage are realized.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Katie Harron, Francesca L. Cavallaro, Catherine Bunting, Amanda Clery, Sally Kendall, Rebecca Cassidy, Julie Atkins, Eirini-Christina Saloniki, Helen Bedford, Jenny Woodman
Summary: Health visiting is a nationally implemented programme that aims to improve the health and well-being of children and families. This study will analyze the data from health visiting contacts and various outcomes to estimate the impact and cost-effectiveness of different delivery models. The findings will be disseminated to national policy-makers, commissioners, and health visiting services for further discussion.
Article
Environmental Studies
David Walters, Emma Wadsworth
Summary: Container terminals play a critical role in the globalization of trade but operational practices often lead to safety and health issues. Global operators must adapt to and reflect local contexts in different countries. Local contexts play a significant role in influencing best practices in occupational safety and health.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Georgios Paraskevopoulos, Petros Pistofidis, Georgios Banoutsos, Efthymios Georgiou, Vassilis Katsouros
Summary: This technology can be applied to automatically detect and assess safety issues in work places and public spaces, utilizing a multimodal dataset for analysis and categorization, providing tools for building safety systems and regulatory purposes.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Industrial
Olga Nicolaidou, Christos Dimopoulos, Cleo Varianou-Mikellidou, Neophytos Mikellides, Georgios Boustras
Summary: The study highlights the importance of weak signals in the Occupational Safety and Health domain, as well as their presence prior to accidents. The findings emphasize the development of a weak signals management framework and provide guidance for incorporating weak signals management into existing traditional OHSMS.
Review
Economics
Cassandra Nemzoff, Hiral A. Shah, Lieke Fleur Heupink, Lydia Regan, Srobana Ghosh, Morgan Pincombe, Javier Guzman, Sedona Sweeney, Francis Ruiz, Anna Vassall
Summary: Adaptive Health Technology Assessment (aHTA) is a method used in situations where time constraints, certainty, and low budget impact are factors. It can support decision-making more quickly and efficiently, reduce duplication, but currently lacks standardization, transparency, and measurement of uncertainty.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Oyvind Dahl, Torbjorn Rundmo, Espen Olsen
Summary: This study examines the impact of business leaders' mandatory OSH training on the establishment of robust OSH systems based on data from Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority. The results reveal that mandatory OSH training is positively associated with compliance with legal requirements, highlighting its importance for occupational safety and health management systems.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Economics
Sayeh Nikpay
Summary: Federal hospital safety-net subsidy programs have poor target efficiency, leading to inaccurate allocation of funds. The study finds that Medicaid expansion increases the participation of non-safety-net hospitals in subsidy programs, while Medicaid contraction results in the opposite outcome.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Rehabilitation
Katrine Astrup, Evelyn Corner, Maurits Van Tulder, Lotte Sorensen
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the inter-rater reliability and responsiveness of the Danish version of CPAx (CPAx-D). The results showed that CPAx-D had excellent inter-rater reliability and responsiveness.
PHYSIOTHERAPY THEORY AND PRACTICE
(2023)
Review
Rehabilitation
Lola Qvist Kristensen, Maurits W. van Tulder, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Marie Almkvist Muren, Lidwine B. Mokkink, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
Summary: This systematic review aims to investigate the measurement properties of performance-based instruments to assess mental function during activity and participation in persons who have survived stroke.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
A. N. Varga, A. E. Guevara Morel, J. M. van Dongen, J. Lokkerbol, M. Lindeboom, M. W. van Tulder, L. M. Bouter, J. E. Bosmans
Summary: This paper discusses the collaboration challenges faced by epidemiologists and economists in health intervention research due to differences in terminology, and illustrates these differences with examples. The study aims to improve the quality of multidisciplinary collaboration between the two fields and assist researchers in selecting the most suitable analytical techniques for their research problems.
HEALTH SERVICES AND OUTCOMES RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Mathematical & Computational Biology
Anita Natalia Varga, Alejandra Elizabeth Guevara Morel, Joran Lokkerbol, Johanna Maria van Dongen, Maurits Willem van Tulder, Judith Ekkina Bosmans
Summary: The aim of this article is to review the methods available for dealing with confounding in analyzing the effect of health care treatments with single-point exposure in observational data. The results show that there are significant differences in performance between different methods, and the performance of a specific method is highly dependent on the estimator used.
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Rheumatology
Stina Lilje, Maurits van Tulder, Anders Wykman, Emmanuel Aboagye, Ulf Persson
Summary: Physiotherapy is the first-line treatment for musculoskeletal disorders, but some disorders cannot be treated by orthopaedic care. Specialised manual therapy can be an effective alternative, but its cost-effectiveness is unknown beyond 12 months. This study found that after 8 years, specialised manual therapy was more cost-effective than standard orthopaedic care. Rating: 8/10.
THERAPEUTIC ADVANCES IN MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE
(2023)
Review
Oncology
F. van Ommen, P. Coenen, A. Malekzadeh, A. G. E. M. de Boer, M. A. Greidanus, S. F. A. Duijts
Summary: This study aimed to summarise interventions for work participation of unemployed or work-disabled cancer survivors. The findings suggest that supporting the work participation of unemployed or work-disabled cancer survivors can have extensive benefits. Interventions included coaching, training, and self-management.
Article
Anesthesiology
Lotte Sorensen, Johanna Maria van Dongen, Maurits van Tulder, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
Summary: The study aimed to identify prognostic factors for high societal costs and high costs of sick leave, and to assess the validity of the model across different diagnostic categories. The strongest prognostic factor for high societal costs was sick leave at the time of diagnosis. Other factors such as high age, comorbidity, and hospital admission the year before diagnosis were associated with high healthcare costs. The model showed good discriminative ability and explained a significant proportion of the outcome variation.
Review
Rehabilitation
Suzanne Johanson, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard, Ulrika Bejerholm, Carita Nygren, Maurits van Tulder, Magnus Zingmark
Summary: This study aims to identify and summarize the cost-effectiveness evidence of return-to-work (RTW) interventions provided by occupational therapists (OTs) for persons with mental health disorders. A systematic search resulted in 9 articles that met the inclusion criteria and underwent quality assessment using an economic evaluation tool. The results showed that supported employment, Individual Placement and Support was cost-effective in several contexts, while some interventions had larger effects but higher costs. The study concludes that conducting more methodologically robust economic evaluations is crucial to strengthen the economic perspective in OT RTW interventions.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2023)
Article
Economics
Angela Jornada Ben, Sylvia Pellekooren, Judith E. Bosmans, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo, Esther T. Maas, Mohamed El Alili, Maurits W. van Tulder, Frank J. P. M. Huygen, Teddy Oosterhuis, Adri T. Apeldoorn, Miranda L. van Hooff, Johanna M. van Dongen
Summary: The study aimed to develop and validate approaches for mapping Oswestry Disability Index responses to 3-level version of EQ-5D utility values and evaluate their impact on cost-utility results compared with published regression models. Three response mapping approaches were developed and their performance was assessed. The results suggest that the developed approaches are not valid for estimating individual patients' utility values and may significantly affect cost-utility results.
Article
Psychiatry
Florine Sanna Walburg, Berno van Meijel, Trynke Hoekstra, Jelle Kol, Laura Michelle Pape, Johanna Willemina de Joode, Maurits van Tulder, Marcel Adriaanse
Summary: People with severe mental illness have a significantly reduced life expectancy due to cardiometabolic disorders. Lifestyle interventions can improve health and reduce cardiometabolic risk in this population.
Article
Orthopedics
Luciana Alves Custodio, Yara Andrade Marques, Aline Martins de Toledo, Arthur de Sa Ferreira, Maurits van Tulder, Everton Nunes da Silva, Rodrigo Luiz Carregaro
Summary: This study investigated the care pathway and interventions for individuals with non-specific spinal disorders in the Federal District of Brazil. The results showed that the emergency department was the most commonly accessed setting, with a majority of individuals undergoing imaging tests and receiving drug prescriptions. However, few participants received exercise prescriptions and only half were referred to physical therapists. Women were more likely to first access the emergency department, and increasing age was associated with a greater chance of first accessing outpatient clinics.
BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL THERAPY
(2023)
Review
Rehabilitation
Lola Qvist Kristensen, Maurits W. van Tulder, Frederik Rosenbaek, Marie Almkvist Muren, Hanne Kaae Kristensen, Lidwine B. Mokkink, Lisa Gregersen Oestergaard
Summary: This study aims to evaluate the measurement properties of performance-based instruments for assessing mental function during activity and participation in individuals after stroke. The study found highest quality evidence for sufficient results in seven instruments. The conclusion suggests that further studies of high methodological quality are needed to evaluate the measurement properties of instruments for clinicians and researchers to select the most suitable performance-based measures.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Fiona Aanesen, Margreth Grotle, Tarjei Langseth Rysstad, Anne Therese Tveter, Alexander Tingulstad, Ida Lochting, Milada C. Smastuen, Maurits W. van Tulder, Rigmor Berg, Nadine E. Foster, Gwenllian Wynne-Jones, Gail Sowden, Egil Fors, Gunnhild Bagoien, Roger Hagen, Kjersti Storheim, Britt Elin Oiestad
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate whether adding motivational interviewing (MI) or a stratified vocational advice intervention (SVAI) could reduce sickness absence for workers on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders. The results showed that adding MI or SVAI did not significantly reduce sickness absence over 6 months compared to usual case management.
OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alexander Tingulstad, Esther T. Maas, Tarjei Rysstad, Britt Elin Oiestad, Fiona Aanesen, Are Hugo Pripp, Maurits W. Van Tulder, Margreth Grotle
Summary: Compared to usual case management (UC) alone, adding motivational interviewing (MI) tends to be cost-effective. Adding stratified vocational advice intervention (SVAI) to UC is cost-effective for workers on sick leave due to musculoskeletal disorders.
JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychiatry
Florine Sanna Walburg, Berno van Meijel, Trynke Hoekstra, Jelle Kol, Laura Michelle Pape, Johanna Willemina de Joode, Maurits van Tulder, Marcel Adriaanse
Summary: The study demonstrates the effectiveness of a group-based lifestyle intervention in improving weight outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness. Tailoring interventions and increasing attendance rates may be beneficial for this population.