Mental health, job quality and workforce participation: evidence from population health research to address complex problems and conflicting policies

抑郁症等精神障碍是残疾的主要原因。改善心理健康可以提高生产力和劳动力参与度。然而，工作的心理社会质量是覆盖工作与健康之间关系的一个因素。工作质量差（例如，不合理的时间压力，不安全感）会增加心理健康状况不佳，缺勤和退出劳动力市场的风险。该项目将分析一段时间以来跟踪人们的数据，以调查社会心理工作质量差对健康和就业的长期影响，并考虑成年工人的特殊情况。它将确定那些风险最大的人，以及可以缓冲低质量工作的不利影响的因素。

Mental disorders such as depression are a major cause of disability. Improving mental health can increase productivity and workforce participation. However, the psychosocial quality of work is a factor that overlays the relationship between work and health. Poor quality work (for example, unreasonable time pressure, insecurity) increases the risk of poor mental health, absenteeism, and exit from the workforce. This project will analyse data following people over time to investigate the long-term health and employment consequences of poor psychosocial job quality, and consider the special case of mature age workers. It will identify those individuals at greatest risk, and factors that can buffer against the adverse effects of poor quality work.