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Articles about 'Impact of compensation'

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Webinar recording: Prevalence and patterns of health service use in compensated Australian workers with low back pain

contributorMichael Di Donato

In this webinar Michael Di Donato reports on his recent research into imaging and opioid use in compensated Australian workers with low back pain.

Mirror, mirror

contributorGabrielle Lis

“Who’s the fairest?” matters to compensation recipients. Researchers find associations between reduced adversarialism, greater perceived fairness and better health.

Webinar recording: The cross sector project -Mapping Australian Systems of Income Support for People with Health-Related Work Incapacity

contributorMichael Di Donato

Michael Di Donato reports on the project undertaken by the Insurance Work and Health Group, Monash University.

Australian Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work

contributorAustralasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Occupational Physicians garner stakeholder support to influence policy initiatives and stakeholder management of work and health.

Is compensation a social determinant of health?

contributorGabrielle Lis and Dr Mary Wyatt

Socio-economic status, and the ways in which we live and work, all influence health. What about compensation?

Preventing further harm to the harmed

contributorGabrielle Lis and Dr Mary Wyatt

Etymology - the archaeology of words - sometimes uncovers a contemporary resonance in ancient digs.

System satisfaction?

contributorGabrielle Lis

Satisfaction with the claims process affects the long term financial, social and health outcomes of compensation recipients. How do we increase it?

Down the rabbit hole...

contributorSuperDoc

What can be done to prevent ordinary and extraordinary patients falling down the rabbit hole of workers' comp?

We are killing Joe

contributorDr Mary Wyatt

Understanding how 'the system' can trip up the people it is supposed to help is the first thread in a safety net.

Compensation: More painful than surgery?

contributorDr Mary Wyatt

There is a correlation between compensation and poorer surgical outcomes. What can be done to change it?

SuperDoc (6) - Issues around causation

contributorSuperDoc

SuperDoc takes a look at the issues surrounding work causation ... and the funny questions people ask superheroes.

What is process related injury?

contributorGabrielle Lis

Sometimes compensation systems, not injury, deliver the knock out blow. Don't let that happen to your workers!

Suspicious about a claim at your small business?

contributorGabrielle Lis

There are three golden rules for small business owners who doubt the work-relatedness of an injury...

Compensation's negative side effects

contributorAnna Kelsey-Sugg

We don't talk enough about the poor outcomes associated with workers' compensation.