title: Predicting sickness absence-are extended health check-ups of any value? Comparisons of three individual risk models.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To predict sickness absence by three health check-up models.
  
  
  METHODS
  A study group of 821 participants from the public sector in Sweden where three health check-up models were compared 1) the limited variable model including smoking, body mass index, blood pressure, and cholesterol, 2) the several variable model including smoking, waist-hip ratio, blood pressure, relation between low density lipoproteins and high density lipoproteins, serum triglycerides, and fitness test, and 3) Self-rated health measured by one single question. Sickness absence data during 1 year was delivered from the employer.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The three models served their purpose to predict sickness absence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The self-rated health-model with one single question has as good quality in predestination as more complicated models. This may have an implication for cost-effective procedures in occupational health services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Sciences, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Falkenberg
authors.forename: Mats
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nyfjäll
authors.forename: Carina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bildt
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vingård
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010808:Physical Examination / Q000379:methods*; D010809:Physical Fitness; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D018582:Sick Leave; D012907:Smoking; D013548:Sweden