Martin Webber considers a Canadian study about social enterprises and employment opportunities for people with mental health problems such as psychosis.
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For: employmentWhat is the sociodemographic recipe for happiness?
Mark Horowitz summarises a recent study that investigates the impact that socio-economic gradients have on mental well-being. He finds to his surprise that the relationship between socio-economic characteristics and low mental well-being is not the inverse of the relationship with high mental well-being.
[read the full story...]Individual placement and support for mental health vocational rehabilitation
John Baker considers the findings of a recent RCT, which studies a time limited form of individual placement and support to help people with mental health problems back into work.
[read the full story...]Steps towards employment for disabled people: What works?
In this blog, Gerry Bennison offers an analysis of and perspectives on a study of employment programmes for people with learning disabilities or mental health problems.
[read the full story...]The effect of lifting during work on Low Back Pain
In this blog, Abiodun Adefolarin takes a look at a meta-analysis of observational studies, which is a health impact assessment of the effect of lifting on low back pain.
[read the full story...]Non-pharmacological interventions for preventing job loss in workers with Inflammatory Arthritis
In her first blog for the Musculoskeletal Elf, Abiodun Adefolarin discusses a recent Cochrane review that assesses non-pharmacological interventions for helping workers with inflammatory arthritis stay at work.
[read the full story...]Around one in five suicides across the world linked to unemployment
Claire Niedzwiedz summarises the Lancet Psychiatry longitudinal modelling study of suicide and unemployment, which uses the WHO mortality database to investigate suicides in 63 countries worldwide from 2000-2011.
[read the full story...]Addressing the health needs of people who are homeless
Liz Hughes reviews two recent Lancet papers about the health needs of people who are homeless and the best ways to meet these needs.
[read the full story...]Long working hours are associated with increased alcohol use
Sally Adams summarises a new BMJ systematic review and meta-analysis of working hours and alcohol use, which finds a link between longer working hours and risky alcohol consumption.
[read the full story...]‘More time for what’? Leisure, life and learning disabilities
Hannah Morgan from the Centre for Disability Research at Lancaster University takes a critical look at a Swedish study on leisure and people with learning disabilities and discusses what the findings mean for the UK context.
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