The prediction of occupational disability related to depressive and anxiety disorders

Abstract

Disability related to mental disorders has attained an unprecedented international prominence.With the publication of the Global Burden of Disease Study, a common metric for comparing the global burden of disparate health conditions was established, and the relative burden of mental disorders was revealed (Murray & Lopez, 1996). The Global Burden of Disease Study startled the international health community by finding that neuropsychiatric disorders as a group were the third leading cause of lost healthy years of life, and the foremost cause of disability. © 2005 Springer-Verlag US.