Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective

This study aims to extract and explain the territorially varied relation between socioeconomic factors and absence rate from work due to own illness or disability in European countries in the years 2006–2020. For this purpose, several causes were identified, depending on men and women. To explain th...

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Autores principales:	Elżbieta Antczak, Katarzyna M. Miszczyńska
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	sickness absenteeism gender inequalities socioeconomic factors Europe regionality geographically weighted regression Medicine R
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f6108e6f626d4cc28a8cf1c820b9de8c2021-11-25T17:48:42ZCauses of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective10.3390/ijerph1822118231660-46011661-7827https://doaj.org/article/f6108e6f626d4cc28a8cf1c820b9de8c2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/22/11823https://doaj.org/toc/1661-7827https://doaj.org/toc/1660-4601This study aims to extract and explain the territorially varied relation between socioeconomic factors and absence rate from work due to own illness or disability in European countries in the years 2006–2020. For this purpose, several causes were identified, depending on men and women. To explain the absenteeism and emphasize gender as well as intercountry differences, geographically weighted regression was applied. For men, there were five main variables that influenced sickness absence: body mass index, the average rating of satisfaction by job situation, employment in the manufacturing sector, social benefits by sickness/health care, and performing health-enhancing physical activity. For women, there were five main variables that increased the absence rate: the risk of poverty or social exclusion, long-standing illness or health problems, employment in the manufacturing sector, social protection benefits, and deaths due to pneumonia. Based on the conducted research, it was proven that the sickness absence observed in the analyzed countries was highly gender and spatially diverged. Understanding the multifactorial factors playing an important role in the occurrence of regional and gender-divergent sickness absence may be a good predictor of subsequent morbidity and mortality as well as be very useful to better prevent this outcome.Elżbieta AntczakKatarzyna M. MiszczyńskaMDPI AGarticlesickness absenteeismgender inequalitiessocioeconomic factorsEuroperegionalitygeographically weighted regressionMedicineRENInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 11823, p 11823 (2021)
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description	This study aims to extract and explain the territorially varied relation between socioeconomic factors and absence rate from work due to own illness or disability in European countries in the years 2006–2020. For this purpose, several causes were identified, depending on men and women. To explain the absenteeism and emphasize gender as well as intercountry differences, geographically weighted regression was applied. For men, there were five main variables that influenced sickness absence: body mass index, the average rating of satisfaction by job situation, employment in the manufacturing sector, social benefits by sickness/health care, and performing health-enhancing physical activity. For women, there were five main variables that increased the absence rate: the risk of poverty or social exclusion, long-standing illness or health problems, employment in the manufacturing sector, social protection benefits, and deaths due to pneumonia. Based on the conducted research, it was proven that the sickness absence observed in the analyzed countries was highly gender and spatially diverged. Understanding the multifactorial factors playing an important role in the occurrence of regional and gender-divergent sickness absence may be a good predictor of subsequent morbidity and mortality as well as be very useful to better prevent this outcome.
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title	Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective
title_short	Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective
title_full	Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective
title_fullStr	Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective
title_full_unstemmed	Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective
title_sort	causes of sickness absenteeism in europe—analysis from an intercountry and gender perspective
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Causes of Sickness Absenteeism in Europe—Analysis from an Intercountry and Gender Perspective

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