Mental Health and Work: Sweden
Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming 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 Sweden is the second 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 Swedish policy
makers recognise the need to take steps to tackle mental ill-health and its labour
market implications, but that a more comprehensive reform effort and a long-term commitment
to it is needed in order to prevent problems from arising in the first place and respond
more effectively when they do occur.
Published on March 05, 2013
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