Health Assets Project 2008

The Health Assets Project is being carried out by the GendiQ research group at the Unit of Social Medicine. The project examines the individual, organisational and societal factors affecting the return to work of people on sick leave, and what factors contribute to people not becoming sick-listed at all. The Health Assets Project is a longitudinal cohort study, with initially two data collection periods. The first was conducted in the spring of 2008 and the second was due in the autumn of 2009. The data was collected through mailed questionnaires and registry data. In the spring of 2008, a survey was mailed out to a sample drawn from the registers held by SCB and Social Insurance, comprising both sick and healthy people registered in the county.  The study population is based on three cohorts; the general population cohort, the sick-listed employer-reported cohort and the sick-listed self-reported cohort. In the first data collection in the spring of 2008, a total of 7 835 people participated, of which the population cohort comprised 4 027 people, the employer-reported cohort 3310 and the self-reported cohort 498. The proportion of women was higher then the men in all three cohorts, 55 % in the population cohort, 66 % in the employer-reported cohort and 65 % in the self-reported cohort.

Purpose:

The specific aims of the project are: 1) To examine the differences in self-reported health between a general population and incident sick-leave cohorts. 2) To examine the work-related factors that promote people returning to work after having been sick-listed. 3)To examine the living conditions, i.e. individual-related and psychosocial factors, that promote people returning to work after having been sick-listed. 4) To examine the factors that during the rehabilitation function as resources or barriers in the process from sick-leave to returning to work.

Dataset includes the 7835 individuals responding to the first questionnaire, in 2008.

健康资产项目（Health Assets Project）由社会医学部门的GendiQ研究团队牵头实施。本项目旨在探究影响病假人群重返工作岗位的个体、组织及社会层面影响因素，同时解析可完全规避个体进入病假状态的相关促成因素。

健康资产项目属于纵向队列研究，初始规划两阶段数据采集：第一阶段于2008年春季开展，第二阶段原定于2009年秋季实施。研究数据通过邮寄问卷与行政登记数据两类渠道采集。

2008年春季，研究团队从SCB与社会保险机构的登记系统中抽取本县范围内的病假及健康人群作为样本，向其邮寄调研问卷。本研究的研究队列共分为三类：普通人群队列、雇主报告病假队列、自我报告病假队列。在2008年春季的首次数据采集中，总计7835名受试者参与调研，其中普通人群队列4027人、雇主报告病假队列3310人、自我报告病假队列498人。三个队列中女性占比均高于男性：普通人群队列女性占比55%，雇主报告队列占比66%，自我报告队列占比65%。

研究目标：
本项目的具体研究目标如下：1）对比普通人群队列与新发病假队列的自我报告健康状况差异；2）探究可推动病假人群重返工作岗位的工作相关影响因素；3）解析可促进病假人群重返工作岗位的个体相关生活条件与社会心理因素；4）分析在康复进程中，于病假至重返工作岗位的转化过程中充当资源或障碍的各类影响因素。

本数据集包含2008年首次问卷调研的7835名应答者。