DK- The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program 07.02.2012
The Danish national return-to-work (RTW) program aims to improve the management of municipal sickness benefit in Denmark. A study is currently ongoing to evaluate the RTW program. The program includes 21 municipalities with about 19 500 working-age adults on long-term sickness absence, regardless of reason for sickness absence or employment status.
Multidisciplinary RTW teams are carrying out standardized workability assessments and implementing sickness absence management procedures. A comprehensive training course is offered to these teams. The effect evaluation will test whether participants have a shorter duration of full-time sickness absence, longer time until recurrent long-term sickness absence, faster full RTW, and more positive development in health, workability, pain, and sleep. It will cover duration of sickness absence and RTW, and questionnaire-based data on health and workability. It also tests whether the program is cost-effective. The process evaluation will investigate whether the expected target population is reached, if the program is implemented as intended; how the beneficiaries, the RTW teams, and the external stakeholders experience the program; and whether contextual factors influenced the implementation and will be based on questionnaires, interviews, and municipal data. First results are expected in 2013.
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