NEWS ANALYSIS: Mental disability at "epidemic proportions"
Conversation is being driven by 'suicides and court judgments'
18 October 2019 - 05:08
Mental disability has reached the epidemic proportions of the HIV and Aids crisis more than 20 years ago and should be tackled in the same way, says Peter Strasheim, a lawyer specialising in disability and incapacity law.
The long-overdue conversation about mental health in the workplace is being driven by suicides, court judgments and compensation rather than “dignity, equality, equal opportunity, freedom and non-stigmatisation”...
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