Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Meershoek, Agnes

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00825.x

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“…Based on the sociological theory on professionalism, we argue that these approaches will not be sufficient to improve this professional practice, as the normative and structuring role of professional action is overlooked (Duyvendak et al . ; Meershoek ; Østergaard Møller and Stone ). Professionals have (implicit) ideas on what is good practice based on their experience.…”

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What's in a Frame? How Professionals Assess Clients in Dutch Work Reintegration Practice

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With the increased attention on labour market participation, the field of work reintegration support has grown dramatically. In order to improve professionals' performance, standards and performance measures are introduced in this field. We question whether this will improve the quality of their work. Closer scrutiny needs to be paid to the inherently normative and structuring role of professional judging. We applied the concept of 'frames of reference' to the process of professional judgement in work reintegration. This concept helped us to understand how a work reintegration professional structures a client's story through implicit rules that escape formalization and control mechanisms. On the basis of 24 in-depth interviews with diverse work reintegration professionals in the Netherlands, we distinguish five of these frames: a procedural, a work-focused, a caring, a learning and a facilitating frame of reference. Furthermore, we show that professionals differ widely in the images they have of clients, leading to a large variety in judgement of, and interaction with, clients. Though differences between professionals are inherent to a complex and dynamic field as work reintegration, the current variety in professional-client contact in work reintegration seems to depend too much on arbitrary professional preferences. Therefore, reflection on these differences, both among professionals and by policymakers, is needed in order to improve the professional practice of work reintegration service.

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“…They cause financial hardship and significant harm to mental health and well-being (Raffass, 2017). The imposition of conditions under the threat of sanctions is known to undermine, perhaps fatally, the relationship between the staff member and the individual (Nevile and Lohmann, 2011; Meershoek, 2012) and can harm the individual’s health (Hale, 2014).…”

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Predicting policy performance: Can the Work and Health Programme work for chronically ill or disabled people?

Benstead

2018

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Many developed countries consider that disability benefit receipt is too high and more disabled people should be in paid work. Employment programmes designed to achieve this have tended towards less financial support and more requirement to engage in activity. But emphasis on social inclusion through paid work coupled with inadequate benefits and mandated activity can cause distress and worsened health. It is therefore vital that politicians understand the likely impact of employment programmes before introducing them. In this article, a new framework based on five ‘Ds’ (diagnosis, destination, development, design and delivery) is used to analyse the UK’s Work and Health Programme. It is shown that the programme is likely to fail: it includes measures that do not work, and may cause harm, whilst ignoring measures that are known to work. Based on this, it is recommended that this programme be scrapped and the government start listening to disabled people.

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Unemployment: A Case for Medicine and Psychology?

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Reibling

2023

Toward a Biopsychosocial Welfare State?

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Unemployment is one of the classical social risks that are covered by the welfare state. For cases in which unemployment stems from ill health, welfare states have long provided specific medicalized benefits (e.g., sickness and incapacity benefits). However, the boundary between unemployment and sickness/incapacity has received an increasing level of attention in the context of activation and retrenchment reforms. In this chapter, Linden and Reibling present the most recent literature on the medicalization of unemployment from the last two decades and illustrate how institutional setups and reforms have led to both the medicalization and de-medicalization of unemployment in Germany. Moreover, the authors reveal how medicalizing unemployed individuals affects labor market reintegration, health status, and public attitudes toward unemployed people.

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Controlling Access to Sick Leave Programmes: Practices of Physicians in the Netherlands

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

What's in a Frame? How Professionals Assess Clients in Dutch Work Reintegration Practice

What's in a Frame? How Professionals Assess Clients in Dutch Work Reintegration Practice

Predicting policy performance: Can the Work and Health Programme work for chronically ill or disabled people?

Unemployment: A Case for Medicine and Psychology?

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