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See also [http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23/papers/parisconference.pdf Unhealthy People are Poor People ...and vice versa.] | See also [http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23/papers/parisconference.pdf Unhealthy People are Poor People ...and vice versa.] | ||
[http://www.fccmh.org/resources/docs/EconomicBurdenofMentalIllness.pdf The Economic Burden of Mental Illness A Fact Sheet] | |||
Latest revision as of 18:16, 4 April 2016
According to this article:
- The cost of depression (lost productivity and increased medical expenses) is $83 billion each year which exceeds the costs of the war in Afghanistan (Greenberg, et al., 2003).
- Depression is the leading cause of medical disability for people aged 14 to 44 (Stewart, Ricci, Chee, Hahn, & Morganstein, 2003). Depressed people lose 5.6 hours of productive work every week when they are depressed (Stewart, 2003). Eighty percent of depressed people are impaired in their daily functioning (Pratt & Brody, 2008). Fifty percent of the loss of work productivity is due to absenteeism and short-term disability (R. C. Kessler, et al., 1999). In any 30 day period, depressed workers have 1.5 to 3.2 more short-term disability days (Druss, Schlesinger, & Allen, 2001).
See also Unhealthy People are Poor People ...and vice versa.