In considering today's economic, social, and environmental challenges, governments and institutions must embrace new ways of thinking and actively engage in widespread systems innovation. Yet, many of them continue to framework within the traditional economic paradigm. This framing frequently manifests itself in downstream measures, such as focusing on health interventions related to poor diet, rather than improving food supply chains and encouraging consumer demand for healthy food and exercise. While addressing the problem is critical, the root causes and interconnections of those issues must be addressed.
The more advanced and comprehensive definition of economic success should include well-being and long-term sustainability. Collaborations, today, aim to develop and implement the "well-being economy" as a new paradigm. The well-being economy comprises a wide range of concepts and actions aimed at improving health and well-being by establishing economic systems that provide both human and environmental benefits.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, casting an immediate need for governments to reconsider what constitutes a healthy, equitable and prosperous society, as well as how countries’ economies may support greater global well-being. Solutions for the well-being economy requires inter-disciplinary efforts to investigate the economic, social, and environmental impact on health and mental wellness in the post-COVID era.
The goal of this research topic is to gather ideas and evidence for an economic system that provides everyone with equal opportunities for advancement, as well as a possible path toward improved mental wellness.
We are interested in Original Research and Reviews addressing the following issues:
• Temporal trends of economic, social and/or environmental influences on mental wellbeing
• Monitoring mechanisms or novel methodologies in assessing economic, social and environment aspects
• Elucidating conceptual frameworks looking at interaction and/or mediating effects of economic, social or environmental on mental wellbeing-related outcomes across the life course
• Novel measurements of financial, social and/or natural capital and their relationship to mental wellbeing outcomes
• Financial crises and inequities in health and mental wellbeing outcomes
• Effects of green space, air quality, water quality, and/or extreme weather on health and mental wellbeing
• Novel approaches to understand and evaluate environmental factors and their implications for mental wellbeing
• Infrastructural changes or re-development impact on health and mental wellbeing
• Interventions or policy implementation and evaluation that take the link between mental wellbeing outcomes and economic growth into account
In considering today's economic, social, and environmental challenges, governments and institutions must embrace new ways of thinking and actively engage in widespread systems innovation. Yet, many of them continue to framework within the traditional economic paradigm. This framing frequently manifests itself in downstream measures, such as focusing on health interventions related to poor diet, rather than improving food supply chains and encouraging consumer demand for healthy food and exercise. While addressing the problem is critical, the root causes and interconnections of those issues must be addressed.
The more advanced and comprehensive definition of economic success should include well-being and long-term sustainability. Collaborations, today, aim to develop and implement the "well-being economy" as a new paradigm. The well-being economy comprises a wide range of concepts and actions aimed at improving health and well-being by establishing economic systems that provide both human and environmental benefits.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated health, economic, social, and environmental challenges, casting an immediate need for governments to reconsider what constitutes a healthy, equitable and prosperous society, as well as how countries’ economies may support greater global well-being. Solutions for the well-being economy requires inter-disciplinary efforts to investigate the economic, social, and environmental impact on health and mental wellness in the post-COVID era.
The goal of this research topic is to gather ideas and evidence for an economic system that provides everyone with equal opportunities for advancement, as well as a possible path toward improved mental wellness.
We are interested in Original Research and Reviews addressing the following issues:
• Temporal trends of economic, social and/or environmental influences on mental wellbeing
• Monitoring mechanisms or novel methodologies in assessing economic, social and environment aspects
• Elucidating conceptual frameworks looking at interaction and/or mediating effects of economic, social or environmental on mental wellbeing-related outcomes across the life course
• Novel measurements of financial, social and/or natural capital and their relationship to mental wellbeing outcomes
• Financial crises and inequities in health and mental wellbeing outcomes
• Effects of green space, air quality, water quality, and/or extreme weather on health and mental wellbeing
• Novel approaches to understand and evaluate environmental factors and their implications for mental wellbeing
• Infrastructural changes or re-development impact on health and mental wellbeing
• Interventions or policy implementation and evaluation that take the link between mental wellbeing outcomes and economic growth into account