Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment
Health and safety in the workplace mainly considers physical, biological, chemical and ergonomic issues as their top priorities. Workplace mental health is often neglected in the overall wellbeing of a person although people spend most of their time in their workplace. Hence, the healthy workplace v...
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| description | Health and safety in the workplace mainly considers physical, biological, chemical and ergonomic issues as their top priorities. Workplace mental health is often neglected in the overall wellbeing of a person although people spend most of their time in their workplace. Hence, the healthy workplace vision in the organization should encompass a mental healthy workplace vision too to mitigate the economic impact to the organization. The estimated annual cost for mental health issues in the United States is 2.5 trillion US dollars and the number is expected to climb up to 6 trillion US dollars by 2030. In Europe, the cost of work related depression was €617 billion a year. |
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| spelling | iium-599422018-01-25T17:48:56Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/59942/ Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment Mat Zin, Nora R Medicine (General) RZ400 Mental healing Health and safety in the workplace mainly considers physical, biological, chemical and ergonomic issues as their top priorities. Workplace mental health is often neglected in the overall wellbeing of a person although people spend most of their time in their workplace. Hence, the healthy workplace vision in the organization should encompass a mental healthy workplace vision too to mitigate the economic impact to the organization. The estimated annual cost for mental health issues in the United States is 2.5 trillion US dollars and the number is expected to climb up to 6 trillion US dollars by 2030. In Europe, the cost of work related depression was €617 billion a year. International Islamic University Malaysia 2017-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/59942/12/59942_Building%20%E2%80%98A%20Mental%20Health%20_complete.pdf Mat Zin, Nora (2017) Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment. International Medical Journal Malaysia, 16 (2). p. 1. ISSN 1823-4631 http://iiumedic.net/imjm/v1/download/volume_16_no_2/IMJM-Vol16-No2-0101.pdf |
| spellingShingle | R Medicine (General) RZ400 Mental healing Mat Zin, Nora Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title | Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title_full | Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title_fullStr | Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title_short | Building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: Employer’s cost effective investment |
| title_sort | building ‘a mental health - friendly workplace’: employer’s cost effective investment |
| topic | R Medicine (General) RZ400 Mental healing |
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