Occupational Mental Health in the United Kingdom*

摘要

The present state of preventive occupational mental health in the UK is described. Efforts so far have concentrated on tertiary or secondary prevention but few have tackled primary prevention.‘Stress’is ill denned but is acknowledged as one factor in the causation of ischaemic heart disease and reactive depression. To reduce stress in industry requires a knowledge of management systems and some of these are outlined. The influence of the doctor on the health of an enterprise is discus