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Return On Investment"The workplace can promote good mental health practices and provide tools for recognition and early identification of mental health problems, and can establish links with local mental health services for referral, treatment and rehabilitation. Ultimately, these efforts will benefit all by reducing the social and economic costs to society of mental health problems."
Mental Health and Work: Impact, Issues and Good Practices.
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Offset Results: Individuals with self-reported depressive syndromes or substance abuse had mean health care costs that were $1,766 higher than costs for individuals without these conditions. Depressive syndromes were associated with increases in both inpatient and outpatient costs. However, substance abuse was almost exclusively associated with increased inpatient expenditures rather than outpatient costs. Disability Results: We estimate that the decreased disability payments in the first 30 days following initial treatment for major depression results in employer savings totaling $US93 per patient, which can exceed the cost of treatment for a similar period of time. Conclusions: The findings from this analysis imply that the workplace benefits from improved functioning are substantial and may in fact exceed the usual costs of depression treatment. Thus, purely on economic rather than clinical or quality-of-life grounds, this argues in favour of more aggressive outreach to employees with symptomatic disease that results in initiation of treatment before their symptoms are allowed to persist and result in a disability claim. In this light, detection and treatment of depression in the workplace can be seen as important components of community-based disease management programs.
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