Mental Health and Work: Australia
Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is a key issue for labour
market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise
that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment
or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental
illness. This report on Australia is the ninth and last in a series of reports looking
at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified
in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012)
are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that policy thinking
in Australia shows well-advanced awareness both of the costs of mental illness for
society as a whole and of the health benefits of employment. However, challenges remain
in: making employment issues a concern of the health care services; helping young
people succees in their future working lives; making the workplace a safe, supportive
psychosocial environment; and better designing and targeting employment services for
jobseekers with mental ill-health.
Published on December 07, 2015
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