“Mental and emotional well-being is essential to overall health. Positive mental health allows people to realize their full potential, cope with the stresses of life, work productively, and make meaningful contributions to their communities.”
– Excerpt from a web page at SurgeonGeneral.gov, a website of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Resources
The web page offers four recommendations for mental and emotional well-being and addresses each of the following questions in specific terms:
• What Can State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Governments Do?
• What Can Businesses and Employers Do?
• What Can Health Care Systems, Insurers, and Clinicians Do?
• What Can Early Learning Centers, Schools, Colleges, and Universities Do?
• What Can Community, Non-Profit, and Faith-Based Organizations Do?
• What Can Individuals and Families Do?
Original Links: surgeongeneral.gov/priorities/prevention/strategy/mental-and-emotional-well-being.html and surgeongeneral.gov/priorities/prevention/strategy/mental-emotional-well-being.pdf
The Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health (1999) spotlights ways to overcome barriers to treatment.