Report of a system for diagnosis, categorizing and recording occupational mental ill-health

UK statutory systems for occupational disease recording do not include mental illness resulting from occupational stress. The issue is included within physician reporting systems, but there is no agreed set of criteria for diagnosis of occupational causation and no agreed system of categorization in...

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Published inOccupational medicine (Oxford) Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 464 - 468
Main Author KALMAN, Chris
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press 01.10.2004
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Medical Records - standards
Mental Disorders - diagnosis
Occupational Diseases - diagnosis
Occupational Health Services - organization & administration
Occupational psychology
Pilot Projects
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Stress, Psychological - diagnosis
United Kingdom
Work condition. Job performance. Stress
United Kingdom
Europe
British Isles
Human
Occupational environment
Occupational disease
Surveillance
Report
occupational mental ill-health
Mental health
Mental disorder
Diagnosis
Occupational exposure
Occupational medicine
Stress
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Summary:UK statutory systems for occupational disease recording do not include mental illness resulting from occupational stress. The issue is included within physician reporting systems, but there is no agreed set of criteria for diagnosis of occupational causation and no agreed system of categorization in terms of type of causation by workplace factors. A multidisciplinary group of occupational health professionals, in conjunction with human resources staff, developed a system for the diagnosis, categorization and recording of occupational mental ill-health. The developed system was applied as a pilot and the outcome from its first year of use is presented. The system is considered to have operated well in pilot, and has now been adopted as a standard operating procedure by the occupational health provider who developed it. The system is proposed as a tool in the development of standardized NHS or UK national systems for the recording of occupational mental ill-health.
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ISSN:0962-7480
1471-8405
DOI:10.1093/occmed/kqh122