[Knowledge in preventing recurrence of depression, allowing return to work].
The cooperation of psychiatric doctors in charge and industrial health staffs (including industrial doctors) is extremely important to make workers return to work smoothly, prevent recurrence of depression and go on working. The psychiatrists and industrial health staffs should understand various laws and ordinances about occupational health including the Occupational Health and Safety Law; furthermore, they should also pay attention to the current changes of these laws and ordinances. The characteristics of working on not only workers but also their organizations are important. Mental health measures in industrials should be dispersed, and so the recurrence of depression could be prevented based on these characteristics.
Takano
Tomoki
T
Kanda-higashi Clinic, Institute of Occupational Mental Health.
Shima
Satoru
S
D003863:Depression / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D016272:Occupational Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D009786:Occupational Health Services; D010820:Physicians; D011570:Psychiatry; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D017132:Workplace