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

精神障碍，如抑郁症，是导致残疾的主要原因。改善心理健康可以提高生产力和员工参与度。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。糟糕的工作质量(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、旷工和退出职场的风险。这个项目将分析随着时间的推移跟踪人们的数据，以调查不良的心理社会工作质量对长期健康和就业的影响，并考虑成熟年龄工人的特殊情况。它将确定哪些人面临最大的风险，以及哪些因素可以缓冲劣质工作的不利影响。

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.