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Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa?
There is an ongoing global movement for the entrenchment of occupational mental health as an integral part of occupational health and safety schemes. Aside from being a fundamental human right issue, this move has been demonstrated to be of cost-benefit in terms of workplace productivity and general...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508809/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-15 |
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description | There is an ongoing global movement for the entrenchment of occupational mental health as an integral part of occupational health and safety schemes. Aside from being a fundamental human right issue, this move has been demonstrated to be of cost-benefit in terms of workplace productivity and general economic growth. Despite being among the regions most prone to the human and economic repercussions of work-related mental health problems by reason of her socio-economic circumstance; sub-Sahara Africa is yet to fully plug into this movement. With a view to make recommendations on the ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa, this paper examines the current state of and the barriers to effective occupational mental health policy and practice in the region. |
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spelling | pubmed-35088092012-11-29 Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? Atilola, Olayinka Int J Ment Health Syst Review There is an ongoing global movement for the entrenchment of occupational mental health as an integral part of occupational health and safety schemes. Aside from being a fundamental human right issue, this move has been demonstrated to be of cost-benefit in terms of workplace productivity and general economic growth. Despite being among the regions most prone to the human and economic repercussions of work-related mental health problems by reason of her socio-economic circumstance; sub-Sahara Africa is yet to fully plug into this movement. With a view to make recommendations on the ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa, this paper examines the current state of and the barriers to effective occupational mental health policy and practice in the region. BioMed Central 2012-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3508809/ /pubmed/22958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-15 Text en Copyright ©2012 Atilola; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Atilola, Olayinka Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title | Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title_full | Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title_fullStr | Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title_full_unstemmed | Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title_short | Partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-Sahara Africa? |
title_sort | partaking in the global movement for occupational mental health: what challenges and ways forward for sub-sahara africa? |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508809/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22958579 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-4458-6-15 |
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