AI and predictive health analytics to identify the underlying causes of mental and physical illness

在职业健康方面，最近的重点已从工作场所的身体危害转移到心理社会工作环境对健康的影响。有证据表明，心理健康是身体健康的基础；然而，这一点没有得到足够的认识，也没有得到足够的报道，治疗方案也缺乏。环境，特别是工作环境对精神健康的影响也越来越得到认识。缺乏负担得起的资源来综合评估精神健康和身体健康，探索它们之间的相互关系，并将其与根本原因联系起来。Praxis Medicare与IBM Watson合作开发了基于云的高级健康风险分析计划(Praxis Risk)。Prxis扩大了健康风险的范围，将心理健康和身体健康风险包括在内，并将这些风险与潜在的行为和环境原因联系起来。该项目旨在探讨调整实践方案的可行性，以适应服务不足的中小企业企业保健市场，解决与心理和身体健康有关的出勤(工人在场但非生产性)和病假的日益严重的问题。

Within occupational health, there has been a recent shift in focus from physical hazards in the workplace to the impact of the psychosocial work environment on health. Evidence suggests mental health underpins physical health; however, this is under-recognised, under-reported and treatment protocols are lacking. The impact of the environment, particularly the work environment on mental health is also increasingly recognised. There is a lack of affordable resource available to assess, in combination, both mental health and physical health, explore their inter-relationships, and relate these to underlying causes. Praxis Medicare has developed an advanced cloud-based health risk analytics programme (Praxis RISK) in partnership with IBM Watson. Praxis widens the spectrum of health risks to include mental health and physical health risk and relates these to the underlying behavioural and environmental causes. This project seeks to explore the feasibility of adapting the Praxis programme for the under-served SME corporate health market, addressing the growing problem of presenteeism (where workers are present but non-productive) and sickness absence related to both mental and physical health.