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Pathways to Disability

The characteristics of disability are shaped in large part by three pathways to disability. The most common pathway to disability occurs among older people who experience functional decline in later years – generally as a result of chronic conditions,or combinations of chronic conditions that create activity limitations overtime. For example, mild arthritis may be annoying […]

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Treatment Outcome: Strategies for Addressing the Individual’s Return to Work

Treatment Outcome: Strategies for Addressing the Individual’s Return to Work The key issues in addressing the patients return to work are: • For physicians to realize that symptoms not clearly explainable by objectivepathology and that unexplained delayed recovery may be due to psychosocialissues • For physicians to screen such patients with questionnaires to further documentthat […]

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Medicalization is defined as physicians transforming

Medicalization Medicalization is defined as physicians transforming the events of life (job dissatisfaction,workplace conflict, marital strife, parenting problems, etc.) into diseases. This occursfrequently with neck, back, and upper limb symptoms being considered as diseasesinthe absence of clear pathology. The physician thought process may be that if there aremusculoskeletal symptoms, there must be musculoskeletal pathology to […]

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Referral and Coordination of Treatment Considerations

Referral and Coordination of Treatment Considerations:Strengths and Weaknesses in Current Processes Again, the main weakness in the current workers’ compensation system is thatphysicians are economically incentivized not to find the psychosocial issues, andthat once discovered, many workers’ compensation insurers seem to deny the treatmentauthorization for these issues. Some jurisdictions do not recognize mental healthissues accompanying […]

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Current Psychiatric Functioning: Strengthsand Weakness Within Occupational Medicine

Determining Current Psychiatric Functioning: Strengthsand Weakness Within Occupational Medicine One barrier to the recognition of psychosocial issues within the workers’ compensationsystem is the workers’ compensation system itself. Most states have “fee schedules”that determine how much physicians are paid for seeing patients in the office. For apractice to be economically viable, physicians must budget appointment timecommensurateto […]

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Epidemiological and Prevalence of Psychosocialand Behavioral Health Concerns

Epidemiological and Prevalence of Psychosocialand Behavioral Health Concerns In occupational medicine, the main problem with psychological and psychosocialissues is the treatment of workers with injuries or illness attributed to work and thustreated in the workers’ compensation system. Workers’ compensation is a state or province program, and each state or provincehas its own laws and rules, […]

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