Mental Health and Work Organizations

Mental Health and Work : Mental Health and Work: Norway

Executive summary Assessment and recommendations Chapter 1. Mental health and work challenges in Norway Chapter 2. Reconsidering Norwegian sickness absence policies Chapter 3. Revising disability benefit assessment procedures and eligibility criteria in Norway Chapter 4. Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway’s vocational rehabilitation system Chapter 5. Involving mental health care in Norway in...

Mental Health and Social Work

Do Health Maintenance Organizations Work for Medicare?

Since 1985, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has encouraged health maintenance organizations (HMOs) to provide Medicare coverage to enrolled beneficiaries for fixed prepaid premiums. Our evaluation shows that the risk program achieves some of its goals while not fulfilling others. We find that HMOs provide care of comparable quality to that delivered by free-for-service (FFS) pro...

Partnership Development Among Mental Health Organizations

Mental health problems at work.

organising the randomised trials that are needed to evaluate the numerous interventions that have been suggested and are in current use. Finally, venous thromboembolism. Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are avoidable and treatable risks for all ill patients. Yet few hospitals provide a coherent and informed preventive service, or a good treatment service, of the sort that has been pi...