Global patterns of workplace productivity for people with depression: absenteeism and presenteeism costs across eight diverse countries

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1525-1537

  Evans Lacko, S ^a,b   Knapp, M ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; Employment; Mental health; Productivity; Stigma

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHINA; COST; DEPRESSION; DISABLED PERSON; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PRESENTEEISM; PRODUCTIVITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTH KOREA; WORKPLACE;

ABSENTEEISM; ADULT; BRAZIL; CANADA; CHINA; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISABLED PERSONS; EFFICIENCY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIDDLE AGED; PRESENTEEISM; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOUTH AFRICA; WORKPLACE;

EID: 84991338361     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-016-1278-4     Document Type: Article

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