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F Mehrhoff

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PubMed2000

[Rehabilitation networking illustrated by case management after occupational accidents].

No net without a spider! After work accidents the victims can rely on the infrastructure created by the German accident insurance scheme (Berufsgenossenschaften). A surgeon, a so-called transit physician, is responsible after acute treatments also for all phases of rehabilitation. A Case Manager (Berufshelfer), an employee of the Berufsgenossenschaften, advises the victim in all matters, including vocational rehabilitation and personal concerns. Both factors combine to form a network that orientates on the social needs of the injured worker, on the financial tasks of the insurance agency and on incentives to the rehabilitation facilities. The goals comprise "rehabilitation before compensation" and "job retention instead of job loss".

Accidents, Occupational↗
PubMed1997

[Return to work after occupational accidents and occupational diseases].

The key formula "by all suitable means" is a structural support for successful occupational reintegration. In this respect, the special system of accident insurance administered primarily through the "Berufsgenossenschaften" (BG), differs from the other branches of social security. This system's roots in civil law do not allow any comparison with the principle of public law insurance underlying the other branches of social security in Germany. Under the statutory accident insurance scheme, the employer, i.e., the liable party within the employment relationship, has to compensate any health damage incurred by an employee, subject to the principles of compensation for damages under civil law, in a manner enabling the employee to return to his position in worklife and in society as unscathed as possible. From this general mandate by the legislator, the social partners involved within the self-management of the BGs draw their strength and their dynamics in arranging for organizational methods within the-administrative offices and in cooperation with the health care providers. This control of rehabilitation, i.e., the accident insurance system's share of the responsibility for successful rehabilitation, contributes a great deal to reentergrating insured persons into work and career, returns valuable workers to the employers, thus having a favourable effect for the gross national product of a society, and last but not least provides a support for the social state.

Accidents, Occupational↗
PubMed1994

[How can insurance systems guarantee continuity in rehabilitation? A European perspective exemplified by patients with severe craniocerebral injuries].

Harmony, coordination and integration are among the factors that ensure continuity in rehabilitation. These fundamental principles are applicable across all social insurance branches, and have in many European countries also entered rehabilitation-related legal systems. In Germany, the lawmaker currently is undertaking an effort to incorporate the numerous rehabilitation-related provisions contained in the different insurance branches of the social security net in a single book of the German social code.

Brain Damage, Chronic↗