What are the benefits for you and the employer in tackling stress & Mental Health issues at work?
- Reduced sickness absence
- Improved commitment to work
- Improved performance and productivity
- Lower turnover = improved retention = less recruitment
- Customer satisfaction
- Organisational image and reputation
Mental Health Continuum
Horizontal line is related to our medical diagnosis in relation to mental health, vertical line is related to our wellbeing
Key takeaways:
- We all have mental health
- Mental health is fluctuating
- You can have a diagnosis of poor mental health and still be flourishing
- Stay above the line not below the line
Anyone with a long term physical condition will find their health fluctuates, the same is true of mental health. E.g. diabetes and depression
Global Burden of Disease study
2019 estimates of mental health disorder prevalence and the associated disease burden. Most of the estimates are produced by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and reported in their flagship Global Burden of Disease study. This is currently one of the only sources which produces global level estimates across most countries on the prevalence and disease burden of mental health and substance use disorders.
Mental health disorders are complex and can take many forms.
Mental health disorders remain widely under-reported — in our section on Data Quality & Definitions we discuss the challenges of dealing with this data. This is true across all countries, but particularly at lower incomes where data is scarcer, and there is less attention and treatment for mental health disorders.
Figures presented in this entry should be taken as estimates of mental health disorder prevalence — they do not reflect diagnosis data (which would provide the global perspective on diagnosis, rather than actual prevalence differences), but are imputed from a combination of medical, epidemiological data, surveys and meta-regression modelling where raw data is unavailable. Further information can be found here.
It is also important to keep in mind that the uncertainty of the data on mental health is generally high so we should be cautious about interpreting changes over time and differences between countries.
The data shown in this entry demonstrate that mental health disorders are common everywhere. Improving awareness, recognition, support and treatment for this range of disorders should therefore be an essential focus for global health.
Increased since 2017 Estimated 792 million people lived with a mental health disorder globally (10.7% of the population)
- Depression 264 million
- Anxiety disorders 284 million
- Bipolar disorder 46 million
- Schizophrenia 20 million
15% of working-age adults were estimated to have a mental disorder in 2019.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/mental-disorders
