Mental Health and Work Expert Seminar - Lessons from the First Country Reports

OECD, Paris, 17 April 2013

The main purpose of this half-day meeting was to shortly present where the Mental Health and Work Project stands and to discuss some good practice examples from the first countries that have been reviewed.

Agenda

All presentations are available in a .zip file here.

	Opening and overview of the Mental Health and Work Project
15 mn	Mark Keese, Head of the Division for Employment Analysis and Policy, OECD Employment Directorate
	Session 1. Denmark: Develop Rehabilitation and Integration rather than Disability Benefit
45 mn	Addressing the falling average age of new disability beneficiaries. Read more Moderator: Christopher Prinz, OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate Country presentation Denmark: Replacing disability benefit for young people under age 40 by a rehabilitation model with better service integration (.pdf)
	Session 2. Sweden: Widen and Quicken Psychological Therapy
60 mn	Ways to provide evidence-based psychological therapy widely and quickly. Read more Moderator: Shruti Singh, OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate Country presentation Sweden: The Rehabilitation Guarantee of the social insurance authority - A way to reduce sickness absence and help people back to work (.pdf) Country presentation United Kingdom: Improving Access to Psychological Therapies & Employment Support in England (.pdf)
35 mn	Coffee break
	Session 3. Norway: Reinforce and Structure Support towards Employers
50 mn	Structures to support employers struggling with a worker with a mental health problem, i.e. NAV employer support centres. Read more Moderator: Niklas Baer, OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate Country presentation Norway: Mental health problems at the workplace: Employer Support from the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (.pdf)
	Session 4. Belgium: Public Employment Service and Other Authorities Working Together
50 mn	Clients with mental ill-health on unemployement benefits: the recent mental health focus by the Belgian Public Employment Service in cooperation with other agencies. Read more Moderator: Veerle Miranda, OECD Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Directorate Country presentation Belgium: Public Employment Sector and Mental Health - Flanders cooperation between employment specialists and menthal health specialists (.pdf)
10 mn	Closing remarks

Related Documents

The Mental Health and Work Project and publications

Belgium

Denmark

Norway

Sweden

Health policies and data

Online OECD Employment Database

OECD Employment website

OECD Social Policies and Data

Employment policies and data

Mental Health and Work Expert Seminar - Lessons from the First Country Reports

OECD, Paris, 17 April 2013