Study probes factors behind poorer health, lower employment in injured workers’ post-claim experience
Institute for Work and Health
New injured worker cohort study at IWH focuses on experiences of workers with long-duration claims of 12-plus monthsOver the past two decades, research at the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) and elsewhere has helped shine a light on the importance of various factors on the duration of workers’ compensation claims. But one aspect that has been less well studied is the experience of injured or ill workers after they are no longer receiving services or benefits from the workers’ compensation system. A research team at IWH has set out to bet...