Do return-to-work trajectories differ by mental disorder diagnosis? A register study among 37 523 Dutch workers.

Objectives: Return to work (RTW) of workers with mental disorders is often a process of gradually increasing work hours over time, resulting in a RTW trajectory. This study aimed to investigate 2-year RTW trajectories by mental disorder diagnosis, examining the distribution of age, sex and contracted work hours across the diagnosis-specific RTW trajectories.

Methods: Sickness absence episodes diagnosed within the ICD-10 chapter V (mental and behavioral disorders) and ICD-10 Z73.

Public health care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of job demands and work functioning between temporary and permanent staff.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic posed an enormous challenge on the public health workforce, leading to the hiring of much temporary staff. Temporary staff may experience poorer working conditions compared to permanent staff. From a public health perspective, we need to know how working conditions are experienced when there is an acute pressure on recruiting sufficient public health care staff.

Interpersonal Processes in the Duration of Sick Leave of Workers with Chronic Diseases: A Dyadic Analysis.

Purpose: Although there is increasing awareness that significant others' perceptions and behavior can affect health outcomes, the role of interpersonal processes between sick-listed workers and significant others in sick leave and return to work (RTW) has hardly been studied. This study aims to examine the associations between illness perceptions, RTW expectations, and behaviors of significant others (engagement, buffering and overprotection) with sick leave duration within dyads of sick-listed workers with chronic diseases and their significant others.

Methods: We used survey data linked with sick leave registry data of 90 dyads.

Public health risk due to contamination of in frozen green beans - collaboration effort between a poison centre, a hospital and health authorities.

Introduction: We describe a rare food contamination of organically grown frozen green beans with , also called black night shade, which were widely available in supermarkets in the Netherlands.

Case Series: To our knowledge, only three adults and one child were referred to the emergency department for observation after eating the contaminated green beans. Only minor symptoms were seen during observation.