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...that significantly impaired a person's ability to function for at least 30 days over the past year - earned at least 40% less than people in good mental health. "The results of this study confirm the belief that mental disorders contribute to enormous losses of human productivity," says Ronald Kessler, a Harvard professor of health care policy and lead author of the study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health...
Researchers arrived at that figure using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative study designed to gauge the overall mental health of Americans, and extrapolated it to the general population. Kessler and his colleagues determined that a person suffering from SMI had earned $23,000 on average in the previous year. Those respondents without SMI averaged nearly $40,000. The researchers attributed 75% of that difference to the person's mental illness. The other 25% was attributed to a greater likelihood that a mentally ill person would not have worked at all, thus earning nothing - Kessler...
...Jacobsen: Chemistry professor Jacobsen joined the Faculty in 1993. In addition to teaching Harvard’s introductory organic chemistry course for many years, he served as one of 13 professors on the faculty advisory committee for the search for current University President Drew G. Faust in 2006. Ronald Kessler: Kessler has been a professor in the department of health care policy at Harvard Medical School (HMS) since 1996. His research interests are focused broadly on issues of mental health. Michael E. Greenberg: The director of the division of neuroscience at Children’s Hospital Boston and a professor...
...Ryder B. Kessler ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...Ryder B. Kessler ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...