Stress and cancer cause long-term absence in the civil service
Mental disorders, including stress, and tumours and cancers result in civil servants being absent from work for at least 20 days at a time, according to an analysis of sickness absence in 20041.
These two "long-term" illnesses account for a large proportion of quarter-year, half-year and year-long absences among non-industrial civil servants.
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