Incidence of long-term sick-listing in an urban area of Sweden and its relationship with demographic data of the population
Sammanfattning
By checking the card indexes of seven out of twelve Social Insurance Offices covering 66% of the total wage-earning population in the city of Göteborg the patients recorded for 90 days of continuous sick-listing were classified into four diagnostic categories according to the doctor s certificate: "non-specific pain" and "specific pain" of the musculoskeletal system, "other pain" and "non-pain" diagnoses. The hypothesis of presuming the highest association between non-specific pain diagnoses and demographic factors was rejected.