There is a documented link between being out of work and poor mental health. Joblessness can create severe psychological distress (and vice versa).
Modern medicine routinely fails to consider social factors when treating patients.
Taking someone off work has considerable consequences.
Addressing social factors must become a high medical priority–soon!
In 2012, NBC News reported a haunting wave of suicides among Italian workers devastated by the economic downturn.1 The notes they left behind were not complex. “I can’t live without work.” “I am a failure.” “My business is like my family—if it fails, I fail with it.”
Recent Comments