Workers' compensation systems utilise health care services for two distinct purposes.The primary role of health care practitioners is to:

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The primary role of health care practitioners in workers' compensation systems is to provide diagnostic, treatment, and rehabilitation services to injured workers. This is necessary to help injured workers recover from their injuries and return to work as soon as possible. Other roles, such as reducing the level of complexity of the physical workload and organisation of work, preventing ongoing disability, or providing a management program that focuses on the social factors in work injury recovery, may also be important, but they are not the primary role of health care practitioners in this context.

Workers' Compensation Systems Utilise Health Care Services for Two Distinct