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Sick leave levels tend to rise during good times

Sick leave linked to psychological ill health has increased in Finland in recent years. According to research from the country’s Social Insurance Institution, there is a link between the increase and many years of economic growth. This has happened before.
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Psychological ill health

is not limited to working life. On the contrary, a great number of those suffering from psychological ill health are outside of the labour market.

According to fresh OECD figures, psychological ill health is a growing problem across the EU. Roughly 84 million EU citizens had some sort of psychological illness in 2015, according to the report Health at a Glance 2018.

Nearly 19 percent of the Finnish population suffered from mental health-related problems in 2016, which was the highest figure in the whole of the EU.

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