The personal and national costs of mental health conditions: impacts on income, taxes, government support payments due to lost labour force participation

Schofield, Deborah J; Shrestha, Rupendra N; Percival, Richard; Passey, Megan E; Callander, Emily J; Kelly, Simon J

doi:10.1186/1471-244x-11-72

The personal and national costs of mental health conditions: impacts on income, taxes, government support payments due to lost labour force participation

BackgroundMental health conditions have the ability to interrupt an individual's ability to participate in the labour force, and this can have considerable follow on impacts to both the individual and the state.MethodCross-sectional analysis of the base population of Health&WealthMOD, a microsimu…