ResWorks provides occupational health services, medical research services, health consultation, injury management and so on. ResWorks also provides information on medically-unnecessary disability. Medically-necessary disability is time away from work as work is medically contraindicated; therapy or recovery requires confinement to home or bed.
ResWorks provides the fact that the stereotype of disability is a severe medical condition with objective evidence of disease and permanent physical or mental impairment which include blindness, severe or progressive neurological disease or amputation. ResWorks also provides customers with findings that most sickness absence, long-term incapacity for work and premature retirement on medical grounds is caused by less severe mental health, musculoskeletal and cardio-respiratory conditions.
The common health problems often consist primarily of symptoms with limited evidence of objective disease or impairment. Research is a labour intensive and lengthy process and in research is likely to achieve incremental gains rather than major breakthroughs. However the size of the problem means that even incremental gains can have a substantial impact.
ResWorks suggests that some of the challenges for policy and decision makers to use research effectively include the time consuming to identify relevant and applicable research and research results can be difficult to read and understand.