Partnership for Workplace Mental Health
E-Update, December 2005
SAVE THE DATE
- The Institute for Health and Productivity Management' s Second Annual Health Management Conference on
"Making Health Management Work: Reaping the Benefits of Healthy Behaviors," media sponsor Employee
Benefit News, will be held March 29 through 31, 2006, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel Orlando,
Florida. Visit www.ihpm.org for more details!
- 2nd Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on "Cost Appropriateness of Behavioral Health and Wellness," co-sponsored by the Wall Street Journal in association with the American Psychiatric Association, May 15-16, 2006, Baltimore, MD. Visit www.worldcongress.com/events/nw624/index.cfm for more details.
- Paper Highlights Employer Cost Advantage of Higher Quality Mental Health Care for Employees. The importance of providing employees
with access to higher quality mental health care was underscored recently in an article published in the November Journal of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine. "How Much Does Quality Mental Health Care Profit Employers?" was written by two physicians on the American
Psychiatric Association's (APA) Committee on APA/Business Relations. Visit the Partnership website to
download a PDF of the paper.
- Improving Worker Productivity: Depression Management Key in Chronic Disease Treatment. About 10% of U.S. adults have depression, but the rate is
much higher in people with a serious medical illness or chronic disease. Learn how depression added on top of a chronic disease can seriously impact
the cost to businesses and how employers can help head off the problem.
Benefitnews.com.
- Tips for Curing the Holiday Blues. The APA recently released these Tips for Curing the Holiday Blues. The Partnership encourages you to share them with your employees!
- Resource Available on New Medicare Drug Benefit! Medicare's new prescription drug benefit, Medicare Part D, will be available on January 1, 2006,
and this will mean big changes for many people receiving treatment for mental illness.
www.mentalhealthpartd.org has been developed by the APA in conjunction
with several other leading mental health organizations to provide a guide for patients and their families.
- Partnership focuses on Disability in the Workplace! Work is central to a person's identity and social role. Not working is a crisis and should be treated as such.
The Partnership is working together with leaders from the corporate world, public sector, and medical arena in an effort to address disability and
return-to-work issues. Read this
article
from PsychNews for more details!
- Latest issue of Mental HealthWorks available for download! Visit
www.workplacementalhealth.org
to download a PDF of the newsletter, or email mhw@psych.org to be placed on the email or print subscription list.
Latest issue includes stories on
- A "Smart Little Company" Lowers Healthcare Costs and Improves Employee Health
- Kansas City Employers Join Forces to Combat Depression
- Alcohol Problems and Depression Go Undetected by Health Plans
Mental HealthWorks is a free quarterly publication of the Partnership and the APA.
Please visit www.workplacementalhealth.org for more information.
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