| Year Funded: 2010 | Budget: | Funding Agency: Institute for Work & Health (IWH) |
|---|---|---|
| Title: | Repeat Workers’ Compensation Claims (IWH Project 1195) | |
| Category: | Occupational Disease, Injury and Health Services | |
| Subcategory: | Occupational Injury | |
| Keywords: | workers’ compensation, recurrence, work disability, prevention | |
| Link to research website: | www.iwh.on.ca | |
Issue:
Many of the characteristics of workers that influence the risk of work-related disability are well-known. In most sectors, men have a higher rate of claims than women, younger workers than those over 45, workers recently hired than those with longer tenure, and those in lower rather than higher paid jobs. However, the characteristics of workers who have multiple workers’ compensation claims in a defined period of time is less clearly understood. This project will estimate the incidence of repeat workers’ compensation claims over a five year period for a cohort of Ontario workers filing a workers’ compensation claim in the period 2000-2005.
Objectives:
The goal of this project is:
• to describe the incidence of repeat workers’ compensation claims over a five year period, including measures of total health care expenditures, total wage replacement benefits and days of wage replacement benefits.
Anticipated Results:
The results of this work are expected to identify characteristics of occupations, industries and injury events that are associated with a higher risk of repeat workers’ compensation claims. These findings will be of interest to prevention authorities. The results of this work estimating differences in benefit expenditures between initial and subsequent workers’ compensation claims will be of interest to workers’ compensation authorities.
Investigators:
Cameron Mustard, Jacob Etches (Institute for Work & Health)
