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KMID : 1001320130400030133
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Social Welfare Policy
2013 Volume.40 No. 3 p.133 ~ p.156
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The Effects of Case Management for Injured Workers:Focusing on the effects of return-to-work and job retention
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Kim Mi-Ok
Park Eun-Joo
Kim Ji-Hae
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Abstract
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This research purports to examine the effects of case management for injured workers: in particular, this study selects whether or not return-to-work and job retention is as an indicator that verifies the effect of case management. The data gets from Korean Workers Compensation and Welfare Service, 11,563 injured workers after medical treatment were analyzed using binary logistic regression analysis. The results are as follows: first, return-to-work rate and job retention rate of injured workers have differences according to whether or not case management services. The return-to-work rate taking case management service was 44.22%, but not taking case management service was 36.75%. Also, the job retention rate taking case management service was 78.97%, but not taking case management service was 72.23%. The rate of return-to-work and job retention of injured workers serviced in case management system have more higher than not in case management system. The second was whether or not taking case management has impact return-to-work for injured workers, but it did not have job retention in the statistics. Therefore, case management has significant effects for the return-to-work for injured workers. As a result, this research suggested possible ways to establish a case management system and return-to-work for injured workers.
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KEYWORD
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Workers Compensation, Injured Worker, Case Management, Return-to-Work, Job Retention, Evaluation
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