Emotional Well-Being and Public Health: Proposal for a Model National Initiative.

Emotional Well-Being and Public Health: Proposal for a Model National Initiative. Public Health Rep. 2018 Jan 01;:33354918754540 Authors: Feller SC, Castillo EG, Greenberg JM, Abascal P, Van Horn R, Wells KB, University of California, Los Angeles Community Translational Science Team Abstract In 2011, the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council named mental and emotional well-being as 1 of 7 priority areas for the National Prevention Strategy. In this article, we discuss emotional well-being as a scientific concept and its relevance to public health. We review evidence that supports the association between emotional well-being and health. We propose a national emotional well-being initiative and describe its 6 components: systematic measurement of emotional well-being, identification of the drivers of emotional well-being, formation of partnerships with diverse stakeholders, implementation and dissemination of evidence-based interventions to promote emotional well-being and its drivers, development of public health messaging, and identification of and strategies to address disparities in emotional well-being and its drivers. Finally, we discuss ways in which a national emotional well-being initiative would complement current public health efforts and the potential challenges to such an initiative. PMID: 29448872 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Public Health Reports - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Public Health Rep Source Type: research