Appendix C Bradford Hill’s Criteria for Assessing Evidence of Causation

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction
6. Restating Disability or Disabling the State: Four Challenges 3
7. The Industrial-Epidemiological Shift
8. From Chainsaws to Keyboards: Injury and Industrial Disease in British Columbia 27
9. Workforce and Workplace Change: Implications for Injuries and Compensation 46
10. Women, Work, and Injury 69
11. Prevention
12. The Importance of Psychosocial Risk Factors in Injury 93
13. Ergonomic Interventions for Reducing Musculoskeletal Disorders 115
14. Firm-Level Organizational Practices and Work Injury 140
15. Joint Health and Safety Committees: Finding a Balance 162
16. Rehabilitation and Return to Work
17. Staging Treatment Interventions following Soft Tissue Injuries 201
18. The Natural History and Effective Treatment of Chronic Pain from Musculoskeletal Injury 219
19. Effective Disability Management and Return-to-Work Practices 246
20. Entitlement, Fairness, and Sustainability
21. Determining Occupational Disorder: Can This Camel Carry More Straw? 265
22. Fatality Benefits: Rationale and Practice 284
23. Psychiatric Disability and Workers’ Compensation 305
24. Categories of Injury and Disease 329
25. Gender Differences in Work Exposure and Injury 330
26. Bradford Hill’s Criteria for Assessing Evidence of Causation 332
27. Fatality Benefit Comparisons 335
28. Contributors 348
29. Index 351