This book is aimed at all individuals and organisations that wish to improve their approach to absence management. It is designed to offer practical insights, frameworks and tools to enable the reader to understand the true nature of absence and to confidently take the steps that are needed to achieve improvement for the benefit of all. It introduces the Investig8 model, a unique tool that takes the tried and tested principles used to solve serious crime and translates them to the world of work. The rigour that this framework offers enables you to gather the evidence necessary to construct a...

The First International Symposium on "Pain and Kampo (Japanese Herbal Medicine)" took place in Tokyo in October, 1992. More than 700 registrants participated, with 12 registrants from seven overseas countries. This book contains summaries of the presentations at this meeting and is published in order to provide up-to-date information to a much wider audience. In China, traditional herbal medicine has been used for more than 3000 years while in Japan, its use has been documented for more than 1000 years, albeit with some changes to the original Chinese formulations. Recently there has been a...