Favourable changes in physical working conditions and the risk of all-cause sickness absence: a pseudo-experiment

We determined whether favourable changes in physical workload and environmental factors reduce sickness absence (SA) days using observational cohort data as a pseudo-experiment.The data from the Finnish Helsinki Health Study included three cohorts of employees of the City of Helsinki [2000/2002-07 (N = 2927), 2007-12 (N = 1686) and 2012-17 (N = 1118), altogether 5731 observations]. First, we estimated the propensity score of favourable changes...