Alcohol use-sickness absence association and the moderating role of gender and socioeconomic status: A literature review

How strong is the available empirical evidence for an association between alcohol use and sickness absence? Does type of measures influence the association, and is the association moderated by gender and socioeconomic status?We designed a search strategy to find all studies on the alcohol use-sickness absence association using individual-level data, published in peer-reviewed journals from 1980 onwards. The quality of the associations was...