The Workers' Compensation System in Victoria: Who Takes the Blame?

Glaser, William A.; Laster, Kathy

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.1990.tb00880.x

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“…Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is a category of diagnosis more social than empirical. This is also probably true of other 'new' acronym diseases such as AIDS (Glaser and Laster 1985) and RSI (Glaser and Laster 1990). The function of such labels is frequently to distinguish the 'good' grieving parent, injured worker or unlucky victim of disease from the 'bad' parent, 'malingerer' or 'degenerate'.…”

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Pathologist as Gatekeeper: Discretionary Decision‐making in Cases of Sudden Infant Death

Laster¹,

Lawrence²,

Ballenden³

1993

Aust J Social Issues

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In many cases of unexpected infant death the cause of death cannot be ascertained. It has become convention to call such cases 'SIDS' (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). A simulation study o/pathologists' decision-making found that there were significant differences in the procedure adopted and the diagnosis of cause of death in such cases. It was found that their decision-making was influenced by factors such as experience, training and most importantly, pathologists' own perception of their professional role. In an emotive area such as infant death the application of the SIDS label is frequently part of the social process of defining disease.

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Pathologist as Gatekeeper: Discretionary Decision‐making in Cases of Sudden Infant Death

Laster¹,

Lawrence²,

Ballenden³

1993

Aust J Social Issues

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“…The Legal and Accounting Management Seminars (1997) adopted the view that this narrowing of defi nitions was used to reduce the number of people who could claim workers' compensation. Glaser and Laster (1990) supported this view when they declared that individual worker's are scapegoats for the costs and rorts of the workers compensation scheme. The cost saving strategies throw into question whether reasonable levels of benefi ts for injured/ill workers can be maintained at the same time.…”

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Women's Experience of the Workers Compensation System

Calvey¹,

Jansz²

2005

Aust J Social Issues

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A phenomenological study was undertaken to understand women's experience of 's experience of ' the workers compensation system. Eleven women were interviewed. They ranged in age from twenty-fi ve to sixty-fi ve years and represented diverse socio-economic and educational backgrounds. All women were from a non-indigenous background. The initial question to women was "Can you tell me what it is like to be involved in the workers' compensation system?" The narratives were analysed and interpreted using Hycner's (1985) phenomenological guidelines.'s (1985) phenomenological guidelines. 'The knowledge embedded in the interviews, expressed through core stories and themes, was essential to making women's voices visible and provide insight into 's voices visible and provide insight into ' service delivery based on women's experiences and needs. Four core themes 's experiences and needs. Four core themes ' were found: negative versus positive experiences, the workplace response and role in the process, women's experiences of payouts, and reasons why women 's experiences of payouts, and reasons why women ' may not claim workers' compensation. The women indicated that the workers compensation process was a disincentive to making a claim. WorkCover was viewed as siding with the employer, bureaucratic in nature and lacking values associated with empathy, sympathy and caring.

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Injured and Silenced: Working with Workers' Compensation Claimants and Their Families

Frankcom

1992

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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It is not uncommon for rehabilitation and workers' compensation systems to treat the injured worker as either a passive victim or a mischievous malingerer.Much ofthe literatureregardingrehabilitation ofpeople with chronic pain and soft tissue injury speaks ofparalysis and powerlessness as if the injured person is a piece offlotsam buffeted about by the socialforces of WorkCare (and other compensation systems), the employer and the medical legal systems. This paper will review the pertinent literature and demonstrate the lack ofobjective supportfor a 'blame-thevictim' attitude. The importance of the injured person playing an active role in his/her rehabilitation will be emphasised through a systematic analysis ofthe impact ofthe WorkCare scheme on the injured worker and their treatment. In this light, a systems based approach to therapy with injured workers and their families will be outlined.

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The Workers' Compensation System in Victoria: Who Takes the Blame?

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Pathologist as Gatekeeper: Discretionary Decision‐making in Cases of Sudden Infant Death

Pathologist as Gatekeeper: Discretionary Decision‐making in Cases of Sudden Infant Death

Women's Experience of the Workers Compensation System

Injured and Silenced: Working with Workers' Compensation Claimants and Their Families

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