Mental Health and Work: Austria
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 Austria is the eighth 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 the Austrian system
provides good opportunities in principle for improving labour market inclusion of
people with mental ill-health but that structural fragmentation of responsibilities
limits the means of the federal government to develop coherent health and work policies.
Successful structural reform requires including a range of actors responsible for
policy implementation to achieve coordination across institutions and better integrated
service delivery.
Published on October 02, 2015
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