Sources for Mental Health Facts & Figures

The following are links to resources that may be of interest to you. If you click on a link you may be entering a third party website not maintained or controlled in any way by Great-West Life.

American Psychiatric Association. (2006). A Mentally Healthy Workforce: It's good for business. [PDF] Arlington, VA: Partnership for Workplace Mental Health.

Cambridge, M.A., Murray, C.J.L., & Lopez, A.D. (Eds.) (1996). The global burden of disease: A comprehensive assessment of mortality and disability from diseases, injuries, and risk factors in 1990 and projected to 2020. Published by the Harvard School of Public Health on behalf of the World Health Organization and the World Bank, Harvard University Press. Retrieved March 20, 2010

de Groot, M.; Kushnick, M.; Doyle, T.; Merrill,T.; McGlynn, M., Shubrook, J. &Schwartz, F. (2009). Depression among adults with diabetes: Prevalence, impact and treatment options, Diabetes Spectrum, 23 (1), 7-9

Dewa, C.S., Chau, N., & Dermer, S. (2009). Factors associated with short-term disability episodes, Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 51, 1394-1402.

Kessler, R.C.; Merikangas, K.R.; & Wang, P.S. (2008). The prevalence and correlates of workplace depression in the national co-morbidity survey replication; Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 50 (4), 381-390.

Neilsen, E. (2010). Changing minds, opening minds: Anti-Stigma Campaigns aren't just for the public, Cross currents. Retrieved online April 1st, 2010 from www.camhcrosscurrents.net/archives/spring2010/changing_minds.html

Orpana, H.M., Lemyre, L. & Gravel, R. (2009). Income and psychological distress: The role of the social environment, Health reports. Statistics Canada. Accessed on March 20, 2010 from www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2009001/article/10772-eng.htm

Office of Disability Employment Policy, US Department of Labor (2010). Work-site accommodation ideas for people with psychiatric disabilities. Job Accommodation Network.

Sroujian, C. (2003). Mental health is the number one cause of disability in Canada, The Insurance Journal, 8.

Burton, J. (2006). Creating healthy workplaces [PDF]. Mississauga, ONT: Industrial Accident Prevention Association.

Wilson, M., Joffe, R., & Wilkerson, B. (2002). The unheralded business crisis in Canada: Depression at work [PDF]. An information paper for business, incorporating 12 steps to a business plan to defeat depression. Toronto: Global Business and Economic Roundtable on Addiction and Mental Health, Retrieved March 20, 2010

Statistics Canada. (2003). Canadian Community Health Survey: "Mental Health and wellbeing" Retrieved March 20, 2010 from www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/82-617-x/index-eng.htm

Resources

The following are links to resources that may be of interest to you. If you click on a link you may be entering a third party website not maintained or controlled in any way by Great-West Life.