Mental Health of Small and Medium Enterprise Workers An Empirical Analysis Using Medical Claims Data from Japan Health Insurance Association / 中小企業従業者のメンタルヘルスと企業特性
- Resource Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Jun Suzuki; Juntaro Yamaoka; Kazufumi Yugami; Yoshihide Fujioka; Yoshimi Adachi; 勇上 和史; 山岡 順太郎; 藤岡 秀英; 足立 泰美; 鈴木 純
- Source
- 医療と社会 / Iryo To Shakai. 2017, 27(3):377
- Subject
- Logit model
Medical claims data
Mental health
Small and medium enterprise workers
メンタルヘルス
レセプトデータ
ロジット・モデル
中小企業従業者
- Language
- Japanese
- ISSN
- 0916-9202
1883-4477
The results show that among SME workers incidence rates of mental disorder are higher in males than females and highest for workers in their most productive years in working lives. This result is partly inconsistent with previous findings using proxy measures of mental health. Incidence rates are significantly higher in urban areas than rural areas, suggesting that regional differences in supply for medical services and/or a living environment affect the incidence of mental disorder. Furthermore, after controlling for individual characteristics, we find that there are large differences in the rates among industries; incidence rates of mental disorder are significantly high for industries which are largely occupied by white-collar workers. These results suggest that we should further investigate the change in industrial and occupational structures and the effect of human resource management in order to consider the incidence of and measures for the mental health problem among workers.