FEDERAL – A Conference Board of Canada profile of mental health in Canada reveals that prevalence rates of mental-health disorders are more than 60 per cent higher among working Canadians than among the general population. Women, younger workers and those employed in the services sector are at heightened risk of experiencing mental-health issues, the Conference Board said in a statement on May 22. Healthy Brains at Work: The Footprint of Mental Health Conditions is the first profile in a four-part series. Subsequent briefings will report on what employers are doing in Canada, understanding the gaps and estimating potential impacts from a greater uptake of effective tools, programs and benefits. The report indicated that occupations with the highest prevalence of mental illness in a worker’s lifetime were linked to the services sector. Industries such as information and culture, the accommodation and food services and government services had the highest prevalence of mental illness, with nearly 20 per cent of the workforce having lived with either a mood disorder of generalized anxiety. Healthy Brains at Work: The Footprint of Mental Health Conditions can be found at the following link: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=7057&utm_source=Newswire&utm_medium=Media&utm_campaign=Comms.