Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health is part of the
Health Sciences Research Group within the School of Community Based Medicine
Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health

Incidence of work-related ill health and sickness absence burden (THOR)

Thousands of physicians in the British Isles participate in these research networks which undertake health surveillance through voluntary medically certified reporting. Our research fulfils functions of a national observatory on occupational disease and work related ill health. The research studies the determinants, incidence and trends in incidence of work-related disease as well as the associated sickness absence burden.