Mental Health at Work Programme

Goals and results

The aim is to change the perspective of working life on mental health and to encourage and enable better utilisation of occupational health care expertise in developing the work community and management at workplaces.  A further goal is to shift the focus of mental health support to preventive and resource-enhancing activities at workplaces.

The Mental health support at workplaces – a generic model for occupational health cooperation sub-project (sub-project 1) involves creating an operating model for occupational health collaboration supporting mental work ability and mental health at workplaces and occupational health care services. The model emphasises the principles of cooperation, competence and prevention.

The mental health support methods and approaches for occupational health cooperation sub-project (sub-project 2) disseminates previously developed methods and approaches for supporting mental health that have been assessed as effective. 

The purpose of the impact study (sub-project 3) is to support the implementation of sub-projects 1 and 2 and to assess the results of these projects. The impact study also includes assessing the impact of communications.

The purpose of the communication project (sub-project 4) is to reduce the stigma associated with mental health and mental health issues, and to support workplaces in changing their operating culture.

Starting points

Mielenterveys on yhä tärkeämpi työkyvyn osatekijä työelämässä. Mielenterveyden ongelmien ennaltaehkäisystä on kiistatonta hyötyä sekä työhyvinvoinnille että työpaikoille. Uupumus tai masennusoireilu vähentävät työtehoa jo ennen vakavinta seurausta, työkyvyttömyyttä. Ohjelma on käynnistetty vahvistamaan mielenterveyttä ja ennaltaehkäisemään työkyvyn ongelmia. Ohjelmaan on perustettu ohjausryhmä, joka seuraa ja arvioi ohjelmaa sekä tukee ohjelman onnistumista.

Additional information

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