Impacts of the Depressive Disorder on Work Productivity: Patients of the Impairment Benefit Program

• Main Authors: Wei-Che Chiu, 邱偉哲
• Other Authors: 吳玲玲
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57142599558655691641

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 高階公共管理組 === 95 === The depressive disorder made a lot of social economic burdens. The burdens include not only the direct cost – the medical cost, but also the indirect cost, such as the poor work efficiency, lower productivity, absenteeism, instability in work and death. It’s difficult to evaluate the all deficit values by the current methods. In this study, we use the data of the depressed workers for the impairment benefit payment of the labor insurance from the Oct to Dec in 2005. The study is compiled statistics by quantity. The items for statistics are the age, sex, disease names and codes, disability levels, duration of diseases, number of the job-change and the salary for the insurance. Among the 109 depressed workers, the average salary for insurance is 21754.86 NTD per month, which is significant lower than the average salary of total labors (p value < 0.00001). The job-change rate is 0.58 times per year which is 3 times than the healthy labors. The illness year is higher in the disable depressed worker than non-disable. The salaries of the depressed workers are lower than the healthy workers. This implicates that depressive disorders are not short term diseases. The impacts of depressive disorders are under estimated. It will be the important issue about the influence of depressive disorders in the families, business, and countries.