TNS OPINION AND SOCIAL, EUROPEAN COMMISSION. Directorate General Health and Consumers
Publisher:
European Commission. Directorate General Communication
Publication year:
2010
Pagination:
64p.
Place of publication:
Brussels
This publication reports on the results of a survey on mental health and well-being across the 27 European Union Member States. The main themes addressed in this report are: the state of mental well-being; level of comfort at work (job security, job recognition, and whether jobs match skills); care and treatment (sources of professional help and antidepressant use); and perceptions of people with mental illness. Interviews were conducted with 26,800 EU citizens between February and March 2010. The results are presented for the total EU and by individual country, and compared to results from an earlier survey carried out between December 2005 and January 2006. The results show that about 1 in 7 EU citizens (15%) have sought help for a psychological or emotional problem in the past 12 months and 7% admit to taking antidepressants in the past 12 months. The mental health of an individual also pervades their attitudes and behaviours in the workplace, and the people with mental health problems are more likely to be absent from work and to feel undervalued in their job functions. The poorest in society, who are the most financially stretched or at the lower end of the social scale, are feeling the most negative and suffering the most from mental health problems.
This publication reports on the results of a survey on mental health and well-being across the 27 European Union Member States. The main themes addressed in this report are: the state of mental well-being; level of comfort at work (job security, job recognition, and whether jobs match skills); care and treatment (sources of professional help and antidepressant use); and perceptions of people with mental illness. Interviews were conducted with 26,800 EU citizens between February and March 2010. The results are presented for the total EU and by individual country, and compared to results from an earlier survey carried out between December 2005 and January 2006. The results show that about 1 in 7 EU citizens (15%) have sought help for a psychological or emotional problem in the past 12 months and 7% admit to taking antidepressants in the past 12 months. The mental health of an individual also pervades their attitudes and behaviours in the workplace, and the people with mental health problems are more likely to be absent from work and to feel undervalued in their job functions. The poorest in society, who are the most financially stretched or at the lower end of the social scale, are feeling the most negative and suffering the most from mental health problems.
Subject terms:
job satisfaction, medication, mental health problems, socioeconomic groups, surveys, attitudes, employment, European Union;
British Medical Journal, 5.11.94, 1994, pp.1218-1221.
Publisher:
British Medical Association
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.
Despite legislation to harmonise mental health practice throughout Europe and convergence in systems of training there remains an extraordinary diversity of psychiatric practice in Europe. Approaches to tackling substance misuse vary among nations; statistics on psychiatric morbidity are affected by different approaches to diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders; attitudes towards mental illness show definite international differences. Everywhere, though, mental health care for patients with psychotic illness is a "cinderella service", and there is a general move towards care falling increasingly on the family and the community.
Subject terms:
law, mental health, mental health problems, mental health services, psychiatry, social care provision, treatment, therapy and treatment, training, attitudes, community care, diagnosis, families;