How Much Does Quality Mental Health Care Profit Employers?

Objective: Employers provide most American mental health benefits and are increasingly cost conscious. However, commonplace anxiety and depressive disorders have enormous economic and workplace performance costs. Methods: We performed multiple literature searches on several areas of pertinent resear...

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Published in:Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2005-11, Vol.47 (11), p.1099-1109
Main Authors: Langlieb, Alan M., Kahn, Jeffrey P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Anxiety
Anxiety - economics
Anxiety - prevention & control
Biological and medical sciences
Cost of Illness
Depression
Depressive Disorder - economics
Depressive Disorder - prevention & control
Efficiency, Organizational
Employee benefits
Employer Health Costs
Health care access
Humans
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mental health care
Mental Health Services - economics
Mental Health Services - organization & administration
Mood disorders
Occupational Health Services - economics
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality
Quality of Health Care
United States
Workplace - economics
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Summary:Objective: Employers provide most American mental health benefits and are increasingly cost conscious. However, commonplace anxiety and depressive disorders have enormous economic and workplace performance costs. Methods: We performed multiple literature searches on several areas of pertinent research (and on key articles) covering the past 5 years. Results: Substantial research exists about anxiety and depression costs, such as performance and productivity, absenteeism, presenteeism, disability, physical disability exacerbation, mental health treatment, increased medical care costs, exacerbating of physical illness, and studies of mental health care limitations and cost-offset. Research addressing the potential value of higher quality mental health care is limited. Conclusions: Commonplace anxiety and depressive disorders are costly in the workplace. Employers and researchers remain largely unaware of the value of quality care and psychiatric skills. Effective solutions involve the increased use of psychiatric skills and appropriate treatment.
ISSN:1076-2752
1536-5948
DOI:10.1097/01.jom.0000177124.60460.25