Canada’s mental health agenda should address mental health in the workplace

Mental health and quality of life influence how people live and work. It is time for mental health commitments to turn to mental health actions as part of a larger health-care commitment.

Mental health has emerged as a priority across several party platforms in the 2019 federal election campaign. Respective leaders are including mental health in the health-care conversation.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY BRYAN BENJAMIN AND CHARLES BOYER

October 7, 2019

On any given day, 500,000 Canadians are unable to work, due to mental health-related challenges. In our Healthy Brains at Work research, the numbers provide an even more precise look at mental health in the workplace. If all employed Canadians living with depression received the appropriate care, 1....

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