July 18, 2023

Engineering Mental Health: Building a Strategy from the Ground Up

This Guide informs the development and execution of a comprehensive mental health strategy built on three pillars: 1) Organizational factors that impact employee mental health; 2) Initiatives to promote mental health; and 3) Benefits and programs to treat mental health conditions and substance use disorders.

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Business Group on Health’s latest resource, Engineering Mental Health: Building a Strategy from the Ground Up was created in response to growing consensus among health-focused entities like the World Health Organization, the U.S. Surgeon General’s Office and leading voices in mental health, including the team behind the Mental Health at Work Index™ to affirm that a mental health strategy is comprised of multiple components or pillars, including the following:

The full guide provides an in-depth review of each pillar, including:

• Their importance and the role that benefits and well-being leaders have in advancing them;
• Actionable solutions for implementation; and
• Areas of opportunity for measurement, integration and accountability within and across each of the three pillars.

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