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U.S. Surgeon General releases framework for workplace mental health and well-being

Five essentials for workplace mental health and worker well-being

Today, the U.S. Surgeon General has taken a strong step to help support the mental health and well-being of American workers by releasing a comprehensive website that outlines the five essentials that employers can focus on to help create workplaces that are “engines of well-being.” The robust website points to both the Work and Well-Being Initiative employer toolkit as well as the Work, Family & Health Network STAR toolkit from…

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Harvard Pop Center awarded 2017 Pioneer Award by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for workplace and well-being project

The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies (HCPDS) has been awarded a three year Pioneer Award by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a study entitled Workplace Redesign for Worker Well-Being: Blueprint for Resilience. The aim is to develop a new vision of the work-health equation by first, expanding the view of health to include a multi-faceted perspective on “well-being” and “resilience,” and second, broadening the health-promoting strategies considered…

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