{"id":812,"date":"2017-01-31T19:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/?p=812"},"modified":"2023-11-23T23:55:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T04:55:10","slug":"mental-and-emotional-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emotionalhealth.us\/blog\/mental-and-emotional-well-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental and Emotional Well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Excerpt from a web page at SurgeonGeneral.gov, a website of the U.S. Department of Health &amp; Human Resources<\/p>\n<p>The web page offers four recommendations for mental and emotional well-being and addresses each of the following questions in specific terms:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Governments Do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can Businesses and Employers Do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can Health Care Systems, Insurers, and Clinicians Do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can Early Learning Centers, Schools, Colleges, and Universities Do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can Community, Non-Profit, and Faith-Based Organizations Do?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 What Can Individuals and Families Do?<\/p>\n<p>Original Links: surgeongeneral.gov\/priorities\/prevention\/strategy\/mental-and-emotional-well-being.html and surgeongeneral.gov\/priorities\/prevention\/strategy\/mental-emotional-well-being.pdf<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.nlm.nih.gov\/ps\/retrieve\/ResourceMetadata\/NNBBHS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Surgeon General\u2019s Report on Mental Health<\/a> (1999) spotlights ways to overcome barriers to treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mental and emotional well-being is essential to overall health. 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