High cost or frequent attender - both spend resources, but are they linked to work disability? A cohort study from occupational health primary care in Finland.

Background: High use of services is associated with ill health and a number of health problems, but more information is needed on whether high use of services presents a risk for future pensions or disability. We aimed to investigate if defining patients as high cost (HC) or frequent attenders (FA) was more useful in occupational health services (OHS) as a predictor of future disability pension (DP).

Methods: This cohort study used medical record data from a large OHS provider and combined it with register data from the Finnish Centre for Pensions including disability pension decisions.

Frequent attenders at risk of disability pension: a longitudinal study combining routine and register data.

Frequent attendance in healthcare services is associated with ill-health and chronic illnesses. More information is needed about the phenomenon's connection with disability pensions (DPs). : The study group comprised 59,676 patients divided into occasional- (1yFAs) and persistent frequent attenders (pFAs) and non-frequent attenders (non-FAs).

Occasional and persistent frequent attenders and sickness absences in occupational health primary care: a longitudinal study in Finland.

Objectives: Frequent attenders (FAs) create a substantial portion of primary care workload but little is known about FAs' sickness absences. The aim of the study is to investigate how occasional and persistent frequent attendance is associated with sickness absences among the working population in occupational health (OH) primary care.

Setting And Participants: This is a longitudinal study using medical record data (2014-2016) from an OH care provider in Finland.

Frequent attenders in occupational health primary care: A cross-sectional study.

Aims: This study characterizes frequent attenders in primary care provided by occupational health services (OHS) in Finland.

Methods: This is a nationwide cross-sectional study using medical record data from an OHS provider in 2015. Frequent attenders were defined as persons who were within the top decile of annual visits to healthcare professionals (frequent attender 10%, FA10) at any of the OHS's 37 stations.

Cancer in working-age is not associated with childhood adversities.

Background: Early life events are studied as potential causes of cancer. The objective here was to study childhood adversities in the etiology of cancer.

Methods: The material comprised a population based random sample of 25 898 individuals among the Finnish working-aged population.

Peptic ulcer and childhood adversities experienced by working-aged people.

Aim: To study the association between self-reported peptic ulcer and childhood adversities.

Methods: The Health and Social Support Study (HeSSup) population consisted of a stratified random sample drawn from the Finnish Population Register in four age groups: 20-24, 30-34, 40-44 and 50-54. The survey was carried out by postal questionnaire during 1998, with a response rate of 40.

Gender differences in sex life issues - a population-based study of migraine sufferers.

Background: Migraine is considered to have a negative influence on sex life. The present study was to analyse the perceptions of importance of and satisfaction with sex life as well as the expression of interest in sex among people having migraines in a prospective follow-up mail survey in 1998 and 2003.

Methods: The random sample was stratified according to gender and age in four age groups (20-24, 30-34, 40-44, and 50-54 years).

Occurrence of symptoms and depressive mood among working-aged coronary heart disease patients.

Background: The typical symptoms of coronary heart disease (CHD), chest pain and breathlessness, are well-known. They are considered quite dramatic, and can thus be fairly reliably mapped by a survey. However, people might have other clearly unpleasant symptoms impairing quality of life.