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Mental Illness in the Workplace

Mental illnesses are common in the general population and in the workforce.

Relevant issues for occupation physicians include:

• The hiring and placement of employees with pre-existing mental illness
• The impact of work on the development of "stress" and depression
• The impact of mental illness on the natural history of occupational injury outcomes
• The impact of mental illness on productivity

Reading List: (The following are Adobe Acrobat .pdf files)

• Dersh, et al, Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Patients with Chronic Work-Related Musculoskelatal Pain Disability
• Dewa & Lin, Chronic Physical Illness, Psychiatric Disorder, and Disbility in the Workplace
• Pincus, et al, A Systematic Review of Psychological Factors as Predictors with Chronicity/Disability in Prospective Cohorts of Low Back Pain
• Tennant, Work-Related Stress and Depressive Disorders

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