Author by: Martin Skoumal* And Martina Honegger
Article Type: Opinion
Published: August, 2024
DOI: 10.31031/EPMR.2024.05.000604
Journal Name: Examines in Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Abstract: One of the main purposes of medical rehabilitation is to regain or preserve the ability to work [1]. In addition to financial security, work and employment also have a significant impact on people’s physical, mental and social health. Work offers the opportunity to achieve success and to develop oneself further, which in turn increases wellbeing. In addition, occupational work promotes social status, self-esteem, a time structure and social contacts, whereby the loss of work has a significant negative impact on mental health of previously mentally healthy people [2,3]. For example, unemployment is also strongly interrelated with depression, but also with diseases such as coronary heart disease due to obesity, diabetes, hypertension and dyslipidemia [4]