Rheumatic patients at work : a study of labour force participations and its determinants in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and juvenile chronic arthritis
doctoral thesis
This thesis at the University of Maastricht, defended at May 7, 2004, yields several important and new findings with regard to work related quality of life, participation in the labour force and its determinants of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) in the Netherlands. The four research questions were: 1. What is the importance of paid work for the quality of life of patients with rheumatic diseases; 2. To what extent do patients with rheumatic diseases participate in the labour force, and what is their labour market position compard to peers in the general population?; 3. Which determinants of early withdrawal from the labour foce can be identified, and what ist hte relative importance of some of those determinants?; 4. Which problems do adult patients with childhood rhematic disease have at the labour market? The main conclusion of this thesis is that, at least in the Netherlands, the labour market position of subgroups of patients with chronic rheumatic disease is unfavourable compared to non-diseased peers.
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TNO Identifier
173995
ISBN
90-5986-058-6
Publisher
Universiteit Maastricht, Fac. der Gezondheidswetenschappen
Collation
142 p.
Place of publication
Maastricht