Mental Health and Work: Norway
Tackling mental ill-health of the working-age population is becoming a key issue for labour market and social policies in OECD countries. OECD governments increasingly recognise that policy has a major role to play in keeping people with mental ill-health in employment or bringing those outside of the labour market back to it, and in preventing mental illness. This report on Norway is the fourth in a series of reports looking at how the broader education, health, social and labour market policy challenges identified in Sick on the Job? Myths and Realities about Mental Health and Work (OECD, 2012) are being tackled in a number of OECD countries. It concludes that Norway faces a unique situation whereby a generous welfare system stimulates large-scale labour market exclusion and significant socio-economic inequalities of people with a mental disorder, and hindering better outcomes of its employment and vocational rehabilitation programmes.
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Enhancing the effectiveness of Norway's vocationalre habilitation system
This chapter describes the use of vocational rehabilitation measures in Norway and discusses the effectiveness of these interventions for different target groups. Special focus is put on early intervention in the workplace, the support needs of employers and the role of the treating physicians. Recommendations are given on how the already sound vocational rehabilitation system can increase its effectiveness.
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