| Year Funded: 2010 | Budget: $199,500 | Funding Agency: Workers’ Compensation Board of Manitoba (WCB) |
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| Title: | Understanding and Measuring Work Disability in Rural and Urban Healthcare Workers in Manitoba | |
| Category: | Intervention Research | |
| Subcategory: | Intervention Research | |
| Keywords: | rural healthcare, disability management, prevention, return to work, injury rates | |
| Link to research website: | https://www.wcb.mb.ca/sites/default/files/files/Qualitative%20Report%20FINAL_1ls.pdf | |
Issue:
This project examines the perception that injured healthcare workers in rural areas have more difficulty in accessing disability management services than their urban counterparts.
Objectives:
• To examine how rural healthcare workers differ from urban healthcare workers in work disability outcomes such as injury rates, duration of work absence, type and cause of injuries, and costs related to work disability
• To examine the status of injury prevention and return to work policies and programs among acute care hospitals, personal care homes and community health agencies
• To develop decision making tools for prevention or work disability specific to rural healthcare employers and employees
Anticipated Results:
To assist disability management in the rural healthcare
Investigators:
Margaret Friesen (University of Manitoba)
