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Femke Abma is an active researcher at University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, specializing in occupational health and work disability prevention. Her research focuses on work capacity assessment, disability benefits systems, and return-to-work programs for various patient populations including cancer survivors and individuals with mental health conditions.
Her research interests center on work disability prevention (100% fingerprint match), cancer patients in work contexts (76%), work role functioning (66%), and disability benefits systems (56%). Abma has developed measurement tools for psychosocial work pressure and has conducted significant research on hearing loss among teachers as a public health issue. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being.
Abma's publication record shows a strong focus on quantitative analysis of work disability and capacity, with recent articles (2023-2025) examining residual work capacity among cancer survivors, mental health patients, and teachers with hearing loss. Her research employs register-based cohort studies and robust statistical methods to assess work disability outcomes.
She has presented her work at international conferences including the ICOH Work Disability Prevention & Integration conference (2016) and has been featured in media regarding psychosocial work pressure measurement tools. Her research has been picked up by news outlets and has garnered attention on academic platforms like Mendeley.
Abma frequently collaborates with researchers including Bültmann, Brouwer, Hoekstra, and Boersema on projects examining work disability assessment, return-to-work trajectories, and sustainable employability. She has contributed to datasets on sustainable employability of teachers with hearing loss and has co-authored tools for measuring psychosocial work pressure in contemporary work contexts.
