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| | Health Report - 18/11/2002: Head Injuries |
 | | John Olver: Yes, it is unique, and what we’ve wanted to see is the long-term, not only outcome in terms of return to work, but also the sort of psycho-social outcome, what they’re still experiencing at ten years post injury. |
 | | John Olver: Well employment was somewhat disappointing, in that if you look at people who were employed before the accident, at two and five years we were getting about 50% back to work, but this had gone down to 39% at the ten year mark, so people had difficulty maintaining employment. |
 | | John Olver: Look we didn’t look at that specifically, but we know that that is the case, that particularly when they’re not employed, they’re bored, there’s not a lot of activities in the community that can engage young people. |
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