The relationship between socio-demographic factors, health status, treatment type, and employment outcome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Japan

The relationship between socio-demographic factors, health status, treatment type, and employment outcome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Japan

Abstract Background Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) constitutes a huge burden for patients and studies show that IBD patients have difficulties remaining in employment. Because there is no data about the unemployment of IBD patients in Japan. Methods We surveyed a representative sample of 1068 Japa...

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Main Authors: J Mahlich, K Matsuoka, Y Nakamura, R Sruamsiri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:BMC Public Health
Subjects:
Burden of disease
Inflammatory bowel disease
Japan
Unemployment
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-017-4516-0

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