Occupational health professionals' and HR specialists' perceptions of telemental health services in occupational health care settings: A qualitative study.

Objective: The rise in mental health-related work disability pensions highlights the need for more research on how occupational health care (OHC) can support mental health, including the use of telehealth (TH) services in mental health care.

Methods: The research, employing a descriptive qualitative approach through interviews ( = 42), focused on experiences of professionals from a private OHC service provider in Finland and human resource representatives (HRRs) of OHC client companies. Inductive content analysis was used to analyze the data.

Occupational health patients' parallel use of primary- and secondary-care services and linkage to work disability: A follow-up study in Finland.

Aims: This study aimed to investigate occupational health (OH) primary-care patients' use of other health-care services and whether parallel use affects their likelihood to have sickness absences (SA) or disability pensions (DP).

Methods: Primary-care services in Finland are provided through three parallel health-care sectors, all available to the working population: public, private and OH sectors. Patients may also be referred to secondary care.

Cooperation between Public Primary Health Care and Occupational Health Care Professionals in Work Ability-Related Health Issues.

Work disability creates significant expenses for nations and causes human suffering by limiting patients' lives. International studies show that to enhance recognition of and support for work disability, cooperation, mutual trust, and information exchange between public primary health care and occupational health care must be strengthened. However, little is known of how health care professionals experience this cooperation.

Parallel use of primary and secondary healthcare by frequent attenders in occupational health and their work disability: a longitudinal study in Finland.

Objectives: To investigate occupational health frequent attenders' (FAs) use of other healthcare sector services and whether parallel use affects their likelihood to receive a disability pension.

Design: Longitudinal study combining routine medical record data with register data.

Setting: Primary care in Finland is provided through three parallel healthcare sectors, all available to the working population.

Sociodemographic characteristics and disability pensions of frequent attenders in occupational health primary care - a follow-up study in Finland.

Background: Work disability is a complex issue that requires preventive efforts from healthcare systems and individuals, and that too often results in disability pensions (DP). While many studies have attempted to characterize risk factors of work disability, many showing for example a link between socioeconomic positions, working conditions and frequent attendance to OH primary care it is not known if frequent attendance is associated with DP despite the sociodemographic factors. This study aims to address this gap and examine the association between frequent attendance to OH primary care and DP, when adjusted by sociodemographic factors.