How policy on employee involvement in work reintegration can yield its opposite: employee experiences in a Canadian setting

References

• Fifty-Eighth World Health Assembly Resolution. WHA58. Disability, including prevention, management and rehabilitation. Available at: http://www.who.int/nmh/a5817/en/index.html. Accessed on June 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Europa Commission Communication. Equal Opportunities for people with disabilities. Available at: http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=430&langId=en. Accessed on June 2010.
   Google Scholar
• United Nations Enable: Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disability. Available at: http://www.un.org/disabilities/. Accessed on June 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Guba EG, Lincoln YS. Fourth generation evaluation. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage; 1989.
   Google Scholar
• Williams RM, Westmorland M. Perspectives on workplace disability management: a review of the literature. Work 2002;19:87–93.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Frank J, Sinclair S, Hogg-Johnson S, Shannon H, Bombardier C, Beaton D, Cole D. Preventing disability from work-related low-back pain. New evidence gives new hope–if we can just get all the players onside. CMAJ 1998;158:1625–1631.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Loisel P, Durand P, Abenhaim L, Gosselin L, Simard R, Turcotte J, Esdaile JM. Management of occupational back pain: the Sherbrooke model. Results of a pilot and feasibility study. Occup Environ Med 1994;51:597–602.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Yassi A. Health promotion in the workplace–the merging of the paradigms. Methods Inf Med 2005;44:278–284.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Loisel P, Durand P, Berthelette D, Vezina N, Baril R, Gagnon D, et al. Disability Prevention: new paradigm for the management of occupational back pain. Disabil Manag Health Outcomes 2001;9:351–360.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baril R, Clarke J, Friesen M, Stock S, Cole D; Work-Ready Group. Management of return-to-work programs for workers with musculoskeletal disorders: a qualitative study in three Canadian provinces. Soc Sci Med 2003;57:2101–2114.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacEachen E, Kosny A, Ferrier S. Unexpected barriers in return to work: lessons learned from injured worker peer support groups. Work 2007;29:155–164.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Maiwald K, de Rijk A, Guzman J, Schonstein E, Yassi A. Evaluation of a workplace disability prevention intervention in Canada: examining differing perceptions of stakeholders. J Occup Rehabil 2011;21:179–189.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anema JR, Steenstra IA, Urlings IJ, Bongers PM, de Vroome EM, van Mechelen W. Participatory ergonomics as a return-to-work intervention: a future challenge? Am J Ind Med 2003;44:273–281.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Raak A, de Rijk AE, Morsa J. Applying new institutional theory: the case of collaboration to promote work resumption after sickness absence. Work Employment Society 2005;19:141–151.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Meershoek A, Horstman K, Plass S, Vos R. Wat regelen regels? De rol van wetgeving bij de bevordering van reintegratie van zieke werknemers. (What do rules arrange? The role of legislation to promote reintegration of sick employees).. In: Abma T, in ‘t Veld R, Eds. Handboek Beleidswetenschap. Perspectieven, thema’s, praktijkvoorbeelden (Handbook Policy Science. Perspectives, themes and examples of practice). Amsterdam: Boom; 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Meershoek A, Plass S, Horstman K, Vos R. Zicht op reïntegratie. Een onderzoek naar de uitvoering van de poortwachtersfunctie (Sight on Reintegration; A study on the execution of the WVP Act). Zoetermeer: College van toezicht sociale verzekeringen; 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Meershoek A, Krumeich A, Vos R. Judging without criteria? Sickness certification in Dutch disability schemes. Sociol Health Illn 2007;29:497–514.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davis PM, Badii M, Yassi A. Preventing disability from occupational musculoskeletal injuries in an urban, acute and tertiary care hospital: results from a prevention and early active return-to-work safely program. J Occup Environ Med 2004;46:1253–1262.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ouellette V, Badii M, Lockhart K, Yassi A. Worker satisfaction with a workplace injury prevention and return-to-work program in a large Canadian hospital: the importance of an integrated approach. Work 2007;28:175–181.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Lipsky M. Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services. New York: Russel Sage Foundation; 1980.
   Google Scholar
• Stone DA. Policy paradox: the art of political decision making. New York- London: W.W. Norton & Company; 2002.
   Google Scholar
• Polit DF, Beck CT. Nursing research: principles and methods. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2004.
   Google Scholar
• Denzin NK, Lincoln YS. Handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage; 1994.
   Google Scholar
• Denzin NK, Lincoln YS. Handbook of qualitative research. Thousand Oaks: Sage; 2005.
   Google Scholar
• Hammersley M, Atkinson P. Ethnography: principles in practice. London: Routledge; 2007.
   Google Scholar
• Tedlock B. The observation of participation and the emergence of public ethnography.. In: Denzin NK, Lincoln YS, Ed. Handbook Of Qualitative Research. 3rd. ed. Thousand Oaks, CA; 2005 pp. 467–481.
   Google Scholar
• Bouije H. Analyseren in kwalitatief onderzoek: Denken en doen (Analysis in qualitative research: Thinking and doing). The Hague: Boom onderwijs; 2008.
   Google Scholar
• Stake R. Qualitative case studies. In: Denzin NK, Lincoln YS. Handbook of Qualitative Research, 3rd ed. Thousand Oaks:Sage Publication; 2005. pp. 443–466 (p. 451).
   Google Scholar
• Boeije H. Analysis in Qualitative Research. Los Angeles:Sage; 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Corbin J, Strauss A. Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 2008.
   Google Scholar
• Ostlund GM, Borg KE, Wide P, Hensing GK, Alexanderson KA. Clients’ perceptions of contact with professionals within healthcare and social insurance offices. Scand J Public Health 2003;31:275–282.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Samoocha D, De Koning J, Zaeyen T, De Vet HC, Bruinvels DJ, Nijhuis F, Van Der Beek AJ. Empowerment of people with a long-term work disability: development of the ‘VrijBaan’ questionnaire. Disabil Rehabil 2011;33:734–742.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benaroyo L, Widdershoven G. Competence in mental health care: a hermeneutic perspective. Health Care Anal 2004;12:295–306; discussion 265.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hal L van, Meershoek A, Nijhuis F, Horstman K. ‘The ‘empowered client’ in vocational rehabilitation: the excluding impact of inclusive strategies’. Health Care Analysis (published online: 14 July 2011). Available at: http://www.springerlink.com.ezproxy.ub.unimaas.nl/content/74q8657532711u14/
   Google Scholar
• Horstman K, de Vries GH, Haveman O. Gezondheidspolitiek in een risicocultuur; burgerschap in het tijdperk van de voorspellende geneeskunde. (No. Studie 38). (Health care politics in a risk-culture: citizenship in an era of predictive medicine). Den Haag: Rathenau Instituut; 1999.
   Google Scholar
• Pransky G, Shaw WS, Loisel P, Hong QN, Désorcy B. Development and validation of competencies for return to work coordinators. J Occup Rehabil 2010;20:41–48.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shaw W, Hong QN, Pransky G, Loisel P. A literature review describing the role of return-to-work coordinators in trial programs and interventions designed to prevent workplace disability. J Occup Rehabil 2008;18:2–15.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gardner BT, Pransky G, Shaw WS, Nha Hong Q, Loisel P. Researcher perspectives on competencies of return-to-work coordinators. Disabil Rehabil 2010;32:72–78.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• James C, Southgate E, Kable A, Rivett DA, Guest M, Bohatko-Naismith J. The return-to-work coordinator role: qualitative insights for nursing. J Occup Rehabil 2011;21:220–227.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• van Gunsteren HR. Theory of Citizenship: Organizing Plurality in Contemporary Democracies: Westview Pr; 1998.
   Google Scholar
• de Rijk A, van Raak A, van der Made J. A new theoretical model for cooperation in public health settings: the RDIC model. Qual Health Res 2007;17:1103–1116.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benschop R, Horstman K, Vos R. Voice beyond choice: hesitant voice in public debates about genetics in health care. Health Care Anal 2003;11:141–150.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• LeDou J. Occupational medicine: the case for reform. Am J Prev Med 2005;28:396–402.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lippel K. Therapeutic and anti-therapeutic consequences of workers’ compensation. Int J Law Psychiatry 1999;22:521–546.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cox R, Lippel K. Falling through the legal tracks: the pitfalls of using workers’ compensation data as indicators of work-related injuries and illnesses. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety 2008;6:31–49.
   Google Scholar
• Anema JR, Schellart AJ, Cassidy JD, Loisel P, Veerman TJ, van der Beek AJ. Can cross country differences in return-to-work after chronic occupational back pain be explained? An exploratory analysis on disability policies in a six country cohort study. J Occup Rehabil 2009;19:419–426.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stone DA. The disabled state. Philadelphia: Temple University Press; 1984.
   Google Scholar
• Saraga E. Embodying the social: constructions of difference. Milton Keynes: Routlidge, London and New York: The Open University; 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Tarasuk V, Eakin JM. The Problem of legitimacy in the experience of work-related back Injury. Qualitative Health Research 1995;5:204–221.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roberts –Yates C. The concerns and issues of injured workers in relation to claims/injury management and rehabilitation: the need for a new operational framework. Disabil Rehabil 2003;25:898–907.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• MacEachen E, Kosny A, Ferrier S, Chambers L. The “toxic dose” of system problems: why some injured workers don’t return to work as expected. J Occup Rehabil 2010;20:349–366.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar