Työelämän mielenterveysohjelman vaikutusarviointi : Raportti joulukuu 2022

Abstract

This impact assessment report discusses the outcomes of the Mental Health at Work Pro- gramme. The Programme was led and coordinated by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, and it was part of the implementation of the National Mental Health Strategy and the Programme of Prime Minister Marin’s Government. The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and MIELI Mental Health Finland were responsible for the operational implementa- tion of the Programme. The Programme was implemented in 2021–2022. The core objective of the Mental Health at Work Programme was to change the focus of the support for mental health in working life from solving existing problems in an individual-fo- cused way to preventing work ability problems. The aim with this was to prevent, for exam- ple, sick leave and retirement due to mental health issues and the related costs in the long term. As a solution to the situation, the Programme involved creating a Mental Health Sup- port Toolkit and a model for occupational health cooperation that helps build a working cul- ture supporting mental wellbeing. The impact assessment takes a view on how successful the Programme and its different sub-projects were especially from the perspective of whether the measures taken had the desired impact. In addition, the assessment provides monitoring data on the direction of development and aims to address the question of whether, considering the current situation and the Programme’s operating environment, the development work focuses on the right things in the right way to achieve the desired changes.