Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment

Mat Zin, Nora (2017) Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 16 (2). p. 1. ISSN 1823-4631

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Abstract

Health and safety in the workplace mainly considers physical, biological, chemical and ergonomic issues as their top priorities. Workplace mental health is often neglected in the overall wellbeing of a person although people spend most of their time in their workplace. Hence, the healthy workplace vision in the organization should encompass a mental healthy workplace vision too to mitigate the economic impact to the organization. The estimated annual cost for mental health issues in the United States is 2.5 trillion US dollars and the number is expected to climb up to 6 trillion US dollars by 2030. In Europe, the cost of work related depression was €617 billion a year.

Item Type:	Article (Editorial)
Additional Information:	7532/59942
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Mental health; Friendly workplace; Employer’s cost; Effective investment
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RZ Other systems of medicine > RZ400 Mental healing
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Medicine > Department of Psychiatry
Depositing User:	Dr Nora Mat Zin
Date Deposited:	11 Dec 2017 17:50
Last Modified:	26 Jan 2018 01:48
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/59942

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