Work Ability Index (WAI) Evidence based method for assessment of human resources related to work
Society Relatives, friends
Family Work Ability Work
Environment Content and Demands Community and Organisation Management and Leadership Values Attitudes Motivation Competence Knowledge Skills Health Functional Capacities
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Work Ability Index 7 Items
• Current work ability compared with the lifetime best • Work ability in relation to the demands of the job • Number of current diseases diagnosed by physician • Estimated workimpairment due to diseases • Sick leave during the past year (12 months) • Own prognosis of work ability two years from now ICOH 2003
• Mental resourses Lea Katajarinne Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
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1. Current work ability compared with the life time best
Assume that your work ability at its best has a value of 10 points. How many points would you give to your current work ability? (0 means that you cannot currently work at all) 0
1
2
3
4
5
completely unable to work
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10 work ability at its best
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Number of current diseases diagnosed by a physician In the following list, mark your diseases or injuries. Also indicate whether a physician has diagnosed or treated these diseases. For each disease, therefore, there can be 2, 1 or no alternatives circled. yes own physician's opinion diagnosis Musculoskeletal disease 05 disorder of the upper back or cervical spine, repeated instances of pain ................. 2 1 06 disorder of the lower back, repeated instances of pain ...................................... 2 1 07 (sciatica) pain radiating from back into the leg .................................................... 2 1 08 musculoskeletal disorder affecting the limbs (hands, feet), repeated instances of pain ..................................................... 2 1 09 rheumatoid arthritis 10 other musculoskeletal disorder, what? ........... 2 1 Finnish Institute of Occupational Health / Prof. Dr. Juhani Ilmarinen
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Average Work Ability Index by age 50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
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62
60
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56
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50
48
46
44
42
40
38
36
34
32
30
28
26
24
22
20
18
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WAI in Mittleren und Kleinbetrieben Arbeitsbewältigungs-Index (ABI) ABI-Kategorie
ABI-Werte 50
49
sehr gut
45 43
40 36
35
gut mäßig
30 27
25
schlecht
20 15 Carrot project 1998, N=729 10 7
5 15
25
35
45
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WAI (7-49)
44 42 40 38 36 34 16+
30+
45+
age group
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physician registered nurse nursing aid protestant priest catholic priest other academic administration, low administration, med. Firemen administration, high Kindergarten teacher social worker manual worker teacher leaders, engineers others 8
Average Work Ability Index by industrial branch. Adjusted by gender and age, (n=3704) Financing, insurance Telecommunication Electronics industry Health services Education Trade Other services Other industry Civil service Building industry Social services Transport Metal industry Wood industry Farming 37
38
39
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41
42
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Work Ability Index classes by industrial branch, (n=3704)
Other services Civil service Social services Health services Education Financing, insurance Telecommunication
Poor Moderate
Transport
Good Excellent
Trade Other industry Building industry Metal industry Electronics industry Wood industry Farming 0%
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
50 %
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70 %
80 %
90 %
100 %
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Work ability index (7-49) among working men and women by older age groups Gould and Polvinen, 2006
40 39 38 37 men women
36 35 34 33 50-54
55-59
60-64
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Work ability compared with lifetime best (0-10) by life phase, 55-64 years Gould and Polvinen, 2006
9 8 7 6 5
All Low educ Disease
4 3 2 1 0 Work
PUnempl pension
WDpens
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Correlations between Work Ability Index items in two age groups (r2 > 0.30)
Age
18-29
55-64
WAI item
1.
1.
2. Work ability in relation to job demands
0.41
0.60
2.
3.
0.60
0.53
0.32
5. Sick leave during the past year
0.39
0.31
0.51
6. Own prognosis of work ability two years from now
0.51
0.52
0.52
0.45
0.41
3. Number of current diseases 4. Work impairment due to diseases
7. Mental resources
4.
0.32
0.31
0.32
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Translations of WAI in 2006
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Finnish *** Swedish *** English *** German *** Dutch ** Portuguese *** Danish * Chinese ** Estonian ** Russian * Hebrew ** Italian ** French **
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Japanese ** Polish ** Latvian * Spanish ** Norwegian ** Serbian ** Hungary ** Slovenia ** Thai * Korean * Taiwanese (*) Vietnamese (*)
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Next International Symposium on Work Ability
• 3rd International Symposium on Work Ability, October 22-24, 2007; Hanoi, Vietnam (
[email protected] )
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