Australian and New Zealand Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work
The Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM), a Faculty
of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), recently launched the
Australian and New Zealand Consensus Statement on the Health Benefits of Work fulfilling a recommendation of the RACP’s position statement, Realising the Health Benefits of Work.
Realising the Health Benefits of Work presents compelling international and Australasian
evidence that work is generally good for health and wellbeing, and that long term work
absence, work disability and unemployment generally have a negative impact on health and
wellbeing. Read more

