WELL Mind
TG 10 Wellbeing in Buildings, A BSRIA topic guide, written by Sorcha Redmond and published in January 20205 states:
The WELL Mind concept promotes mental health through policy, programme and design strategies that seek to address the diverse factors that influence cognitive and emotional wellbeing.
WELL promotes utilisation of strategies organisations can take to promote mental health, including:
- Improvements to mental health literacy and efforts to reduce stigma
- Provision of healthy living and working conditions for all, including organisational improvements to promote positive work environments.
- Provision of stress management programmes.
- Support access to mental health, substance use and addiction services and treatment.
- Mental health is an essential component of human health across all life stages and is vital for the physical and social wellbeing of all individuals, communities and societies.
- Mental health is determined by a range of socio-economic, biological and environmental factors, such as working and living conditions.
- Mental health and substance use conditions are a global health concern. Study of data from 1980 to 2013 estimates 18% of adults will experience a common mental health condition, such as anxiety, depression or substance abuse over a year, and over 30% of adults will experience a mental health condition during their lifetime.
- The WHO estimates 66% of individuals experiencing common mental health conditions are employed.
--BSRIA
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