MCOL June 25, 2021
Perhaps no aspect of healthcare is more intertwined with the workplace than mental health. In Health Affairs this week, Amanda Goorin, Richard G. Frank, and Sherry Glied in their post: Addressing Mental Illness Requires Workplace Policy As Well As Health Care Policy, frame a central workplace mental health issue as this:
“Nearly one in five adults, or 51.5 million people, in the United States meets diagnostic criteria for a mental illness, which can impair functioning across a spectrum of severity, ranging from mild to moderate to severe. Yet, despite advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these conditions, and considerable progress on including mental health care in health insurance, people with mental illness—including those with moderate illnesses such as depression...