TY - JOUR AU - Broersen, Jake PJ AU - Mulders, Henny PG AU - Schellart, Antonius JM AU - van der Beek, Allard J. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/03/06 TI - The identification of job opportunities for severely disabled sick-listed employees JO - BMC Public Health SP - 156 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Work disability is a major problem for both the worker and society. To explore the work opportunities in regular jobs of persons low in functional abilities, we tried to identify occupations low in task demands. Because of the variety of functional abilities and of the corresponding work demands, the disabled persons need to be classified by type of disability in a limited number of subgroups. Within each subgroup, occupations judged suitable for the most seriously disabled will be selected as having a very low level of the corresponding task demands. These occupations can be applied as reference occupations to assess the presence or absence of work capacity of sick-listed employees in regular jobs, and as job opportunities for people with a specific type of functional disability. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-12-156 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-12-156 ID - Broersen2012 ER -