title: [Incapacity to work, occupational disability and disability--legal basis, definitions and comments].
abstract: The precise and correct understanding of terms in insurance medicine like incapacity to work, occupational disability and disability by physicians in general praxis and as experts is of great importance for patients. Swiss physicians are first of all requested to presumably judge incapacity to work retrospectively with regard to the previous professional activities and prospectively taking into account alternative activities that can be envisaged after appropriate medical measures. In contrast occupational disability and disability in the legal sense require a permanent and important impairment of the health status ensuing economical losses in the labour market.
authors.affiliation: Academy of Swiss Insurance Medicine, Universitätsspital Basel. ybollag@uhbs.ch
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authors.lastname: Bollag
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D012050:Rehabilitation, Vocational; D018582:Sick Leave / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D012943:Social Security / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013557:Switzerland; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation