Interventions that facilitate a well-functioning, inclusive and adaptive working life, with high employment and reduced absence from work, is of high priority for employers and policymakers. Examples of such interventions include the Norwegian Agreement for a more inclusive working life (the IA agreement), introduced in 2001, along with interventions in medical settings where work-related outcomes are central, such as in rehabilitation and medical treatment of individuals with health challenges.
The project make use of three large, high-quality datasets, based on data from nation-wide administrative and medical registries. Two of these are based at STAMI and cover the general Norwegian population, while one covers all patients hospitalized after traumatic injury in Norway.
A particular focus will be on how treatment effects can be defined and estimated in this context, and how the large data resources can be used to understand the role of observered and unobserved heteregeniety in working life outcomes.
The project group consists of researchers with background in causal inference and statistical methods for event history analysis and multi-state modelling at the University of Oslo (UiO), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), occupational epidemiology at the National Institute of Occupational Health, Norway (STAMI), and clinical expertise from Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The project has a reference group that includes representatives from key Norwegian stakeholders and users.
Project leader: Rachel Hasting
Project group members: Rune Hoff
External collaborators: OCBE, UiO (Norway), OUH (Norway), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), EFPL (Switzerland)
Financing: The Research Council of Norway (NFR-project 352140)
More information is to be found on the Norwegian project page.