Health-selection mechanisms in the pathway towards a disability pension.

Unlabelled: Studies emphasizing the disability pension (DP) process are rare.

Objective: To identify similarities and differences in work and health between persons who, prior to DP changed jobs due to health-reasons (health-selectors) to other disability pensioners.

Participants: a retrospective cohort study was performed on a random sample of all individuals in three counties of Sweden who, in 1998, were under the age of 65 and had been granted DP.

Positive experiences of encounters with healthcare and social insurance professionals among people on long-term sick leave.

Objective: To analyse different aspects of positive experiences of people on long-term sick leave with regard to their interactions with healthcare and social insurance professionals.

Methods: A random population-based questionnaire survey among 10,042 long-term sick-listed people in Sweden. Statements related to positive encounters with the professionals were analysed.

Gender differences in experiencing negative encounters with healthcare: a study of long-term sickness absentees.

Aim: In most countries there are gender differences in sickness absence and in absentees' return to work (RTW). According to different theories sick-listed persons' experiences of encounters with healthcare professionals can influence self-esteem and RTW. The aim was to analyse gender differences in sickness absentees' experiences of negative encounters with healthcare professionals.

A population study of the association between hospitalization for alcoholism among employees in different socio-economic classes and the risk of mobility out of, or within, the workforce.

Background: Alcohol problems can increase the risk of downward mobility within, or mobility out of, the workforce. The magnitude of this risk has been unclear, as has also been the question whether the risk is different for men and women, for different socio-economic classes, and for single-living compared with co-habiting people.

Methods: The study period was 1970-1980, when unemployment was low in Sweden.

An explorative, population-based study of female disability pensioners: the role of childhood conditions and alcohol abuse/dependence.

Aims: This study investigates the association in women between conditions during childhood and adolescence and alcohol dependence or abuse in adulthood on the one hand, and disability pensions and long-term sickness absence on the other.

Methods: A stratified population-based sample of women in Göteborg was interviewed. For analyses in this study the following variables were selected from the interview protocol: childhood and adolescence, education, employment, social class, self-rated physical health and alcohol dependence or abuse (ADA), with diagnoses assessed according to DSM-III-R.