Citation

Cocchiola-Silva RA. J. Health Psychol. 2016; 21(3): 390-399.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105316628753

PMID

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Abstract

This study discusses the inclusion of mental disorders as work-related diseases in occupational health policies in Brazil. Mental disorders first appeared as a group of occupational diseases in 1999. Establishing mental disorders as occupational diseases was a result of the confluence of several factors: a broader notion of health, a positive shift in public perception regarding preconceived judgements relating to mental disorders and the improvement in the process that defines social security benefit entitlements due to the implementation of a new methodology in 2007.

Language: en