Depression and anxiety disorders are the leading cause of sickness absence and long-term work incapacity in most developed countries. The present study aimed to carry out a systematic meta-review examining the effectiveness of workplace mental health interventions, defined as any intervention that a workplace may either initiate or facilitate that aims to prevent, treat or rehabilitate a worker...

INTRODUCTION The past two decades have seen substantial change in the way medicine is practised in the UK, with a decisive shift away from paternalistic medicine. This has involved an increasing emphasis on the rights, views, and choices of patients, and on respect for their autonomy in decision making with regards to their health care. At the same time, however, has come the recognition that t...

William Farr and many other pioneers advocated the systematic collection of data on incapacity from non-fatal disease. The National Insurance Act of 1946 provided for the compulsory insurance of everybody between school-leaving and retirementpensionable age with the exception of married women, and also for payment of sickness benefit; this for the first time made possible the collection of nati...

This article explores the hypothesis that the relational deficit in schizophrenia is not a consequence of acute symptoms and course but instead is a fundamental aspect of schizophrenic vulnerability. This basic relational deficit could be better understood as disconnectedness from common sense. Common sense is a tool for adaptation whose main scope is establishing cause-and-effect and motivatio...

Elderly patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are subject to incidence of hip fracture, especially in elderly female devastating and progressive consequences of have unconstructive impacts in the whole body function problems such as memory impairments; judgment deficiency the topographical orientation – characterized by the oneself in one’s surroundings as a result of dementia which lead to di...

It is not uncommon for people to hold bizarre views. Sometimes, these views appear before the courts in mental capacity cases. Judges must then decide if are so that they constitute evidence of incapacity or, instead, those everyday sort do such evidence. The idea behind distinction can be false but, some important sense, unreasonable. But what should tip balance reasons a view count as severel...

Abstract Background Mental disorders are related to high individual suffering and significant socio-economic burdens. However, it remains unclear what extent self-reported mental distress is individuals’ days of incapacity work their medical costs. This study aims investigate the impact for specific non-specific costs over a two-year span. Method Within longitudinal research design, 2287 partic...