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Mental health and the floundering informal worker
Context:
Informal workers, despite their significant contribution to national income, are perennially exposed to economic, physical, and, in turn, mental vulnerabilities.
Mental Health condition for Informal Workforce
- Informal Workers' Mental Health: ILO reports 15% of working-age adults’ worldwide grapple with mental disorders.
- Plight of Informal Workers in India: India's informal workforce, comprising 90% of the labor force, faces precarious conditions negatively impacting mental health.
- Youth Unemployment: UNDP highlights detrimental effects of unemployment and poor-quality jobs on mental health.
Social Security and Mental Well-being
- Impacts of Inadequate Social Security: NCRB data links daily wage earners to 26% of suicide cases, underlining the importance of employment guarantee programs.
- Code on Social Security 2020: Universalizing social security is essential, but the current code lacks this as a stated goal.Emphasizes the need for proactive policies and adequate mental health recognition and action.
- Budgetary Allocation: World Mental Health Report advocates for community-based, people-centered, and rights-oriented care.
Toward Universal Mental Health Rights
- Empowering India's Informal Workforce: Urges a reevaluation of social security measures, emphasizing the need for universalization.
- Fulfilling Mental Health as a Universal Right: Aligns with Sustainable Development Goals, particularly SDG 3 on 'good health and well-being' and SDG 8 on 'decent work for all.'
- Urges a holistic approach to mental health: Encompassing recovery-oriented, human rights-based care.
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