Vocational rehabilitation: a Swedish model for assessment, treatment, training and reinstatement

Issue title: Work Practice in Sweden

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Larsson, Svante^;

Affiliations: Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Note: [] This article is the edited text of a lecture held during a course in Vocational Rehabilitation, June 1994, Stockholm, Sweden.

Abstract: In Sweden the central feature of vocational rehabilitation is the cooperation between rehabilitation within medical care and the vocational rehabilitation and training arranged by the Employment Office and the Social Insurance Office. The two latter public authorities are both responsible for the availability of rehabilitation and the payment of compensation to the chronically sick-listed or unemployed. Increased unemployment necessitates the improvement of routines for cooperation and the design of an efficient rehabilitation. The Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the Karolinska Hospital is modifying routines to improve its handling of the new tasks. Det som karaktäriserar den yrkesinriktade rehabiliteringen i Sverige är samarbetet mellan den rehabilitering som bedrivs inom sjukvården och de yrkesinriktade åtgärder som Arbetsförmedling. Arbetsmarknadsinstitut och Försäkringskassa kan erbjuda. Dessa senare institutioner ansvarar för praktiska rehabiliteringsinsatser och ekonomisk ersättning till långtidssjukskrivna eller arbetslösa. Ökad arbetslöshet ställer högre krav på samarbete och rehabiliteringens utformning. Rehabiliteringsmedicinska kliniken vid Karolinska sjukhuset förändrar därför sina rutiner i syfte att bättre svara mot de ökande kraven.

Keywords: Rehabilitation medicine, Sick-leave, Employability institutes

Keywords: Rehabiliteringsmedicin, Sjukskrivning, Arbetsmarknadsinstitut

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-1995-5308

Journal: Work, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 205-212, 1995