The Costs and Benefits of Enhanced Depression Care to Employers
Open Access
- 1 December 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 63 (12) , 1345-1353
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.63.12.1345
Abstract
Previous research has found that depression is associated with enormous societal burdens.1-3 Just the economic costs from depression are in the order of tens of billions of dollars each year in the United States, with the largest component deriving from lost work productivity.4,5Keywords
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