Knapp, Martin 
ORCID: 0000-0003-1427-0215
(2013)
EQOLISE study finds Individual Placement and Support approach is effective in helping people with severe mental illness obtain competitive employment.
LSE Health and Social Care
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Abstract
People with severe mental illness face many challenges in securing paid work, and employment rates are low. For example, a five-country European study by Knapp et al (2002) found less than a quarter of people with schizophrenia were in paid employment, the proportion being as low as 5% in London. The economic and social impacts of employment difficulties are enormous. For individuals, it can mean long-term reliance on state welfare benefits, insecure low-paid work, and a disability trap that makes it hard to escape. For the broader society, the impacts are the risk of an almost permanently marginalized, socially excluded group of people, and high costs: productivity losses because of unemployment or absenteeism account for a large proportion of the overall cost of schizophrenia across many countries.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/healthandsocialcare/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 13:40 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 19:08 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/77669 |
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