Online resources supporting workers with chronic episodic disabilities: an environmental scan

Online resources supporting workers with chronic episodic disabilities: an environmental scan Dwayne Van Eerd, Julie Bowring, Arif Jetha, F. Curtis Breslin, Monique A.M. Gignac International Journal of Workplace Health Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.129-148 The purpose of this research was to conduct an environmental scan describing publicly available resources focussed on working with an episodic disability and providing information and advice about communication and accommodation to support working people living with episodic disabilities. The authors conducted an environmental scan of English language, freely available, online resources relevant to episodic disabilities in the workplace. The authors used Google™ to conduct structured keyword searches. Resources were reviewed and data extracted about episodic health condition(s) addressed, intended audience(s), resource format and content about health, legal rights, workplace issues, and accommodation and communication needs. Searches yielded 5,300 links to websites which was supplemented by 101 links identified by partners. Screening for relevance found 210 resources for which data were extracted. Of them, 158 addressed specific episodic disabilities or episodic disabilities generally. Most resources provided useful information addressing communication and accommodation of episodic disability. However, information specific to the episodic nature of disability was not consistently ava...
Source: International Journal of Workplace Health Management - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Source Type: research