Endorsed by: The Louisiana Business Group on Health, The Employers Coalition for Healthcare Options,

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Endorsed by The Louisiana Business Group on
Health, The Employers Coalition for Healthcare
Options, and
the Associated Builders Contractors of Alabama
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Mental Health Wellness

• The Effects of Mental Health Impairments on
  Presenteeism

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Cost Burden

• Healthcare and disability costs tend to get the
  most attention by employers
• Direct cost actually account for only a minor
  portion of the total health-and
  productivity-related costs
• Mental health and addictions are among the most
  important causes of absenteeism and lost
  productivity worldwide

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Presenteeism

• On-the-job productivity losses
• Ability to concentrate
• Quality of interpersonal communication
• Need to repeat a job
• Working more slowly
• Comparison of work output to predefined
  performance measures

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Absence

• More employees are absent from work from stress
  and anxiety than because of physical illness or
  injury
• Employees with one or more mental health
  conditions missed work at a rate five times
  higher
• Depressed employees are absent twice as often

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Productivity

• Presenteeism losses accounted for the majority of
  per person annual total costs for 9 out of 10
  most expensive health conditions
• Indirect cost for depression was estimated at
  over 44 billion to the entire US economy
• 80 from presenteeism
• 20 for absence

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Indirect vs. Direct

• The indirect costs of mental health-related
  absence and productivity losses are often much
  more than the direct costs of healthcare or
  insurance benefit claims

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Treatment Effectiveness

• Enough evidence worldwide that the World Health
  Organization (WHO) and government health
  organizations in US and Canada have issued major
  reports that acknowledge the general
  cost-effectiveness of mental healthcare

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Leading Causes of Disability

• Five of the 10 leading causes of disability
  worldwide are mental health problems
• Major depression
• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar disorders
• Alcohol use
• Obsessive compulsive disorder

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What Can Employers Do?

• Educate
• Manage the environment
• Provide adequate benefits

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Educate

• Supervisory skills
• Destigmatize mental health

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Manage the Environment

• Wellness culture
• Be proactive to workplace stressors

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Benefits

• Structure benefits to promote early access to
  services
• Promote benefits available

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Questions, Comments Discussion
Endorsed by The Louisiana Business Group on
Health, The Employers Coalition for Healthcare
Options, and
the Associated Builders Contractors of Alabama