Win-win solutions for well-being and mental health
Good mental health is a vital part of people’s well-being and essential for individuals
and societies to thrive. The recognition that successful mental health strategies
need to involve a range of sectors beyond health is not new, yet in practice coalition-building
often remains limited and not implemented at scale. This Policy Insights highlights
the main findings from the report How to Make Societies Thrive? Coordinating Approaches
to Promote Well-being and Mental Health that uses the OECD Well-being Framework to
review how people’s economic, social, relational, civic and environmental experiences
interlink with their mental health, and uses this evidence to identify policies that
can jointly improve both mental health and wider well-being outcomes. Selected mental
health initiatives across the OECD are also reviewed to illustrate which elements
of the policy ecosystem can support collaboration across government and with society
more broadly.
Published on October 17, 2023Also available in: French
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