It Pays to Care
Policy Documents
The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) are leading the call to improve health and recovery outcomes and reducing barriers to care for people experiencing work injuries.
The AFOEM have developed 2 complementary documents that focus on work injury management:
Bringing evidence-informed practice to work injury schemes which presents the evidence regarding psychosocial factors as barriers to return to work and the evidence about how these barriers can be addressed. This paper describes ways to improve scheme delivery in the four central work injury domains: leadership and regulation, case management, the workplace and healthcare.
A values and principles based approach to bringing evidence-informed practice to work injury schemes which covers the values and principles of healthy insurance schemes, and sets out why “it pays to care”.
