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Article - McKinsey Health Institute
Working nine to thrive
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Better aligning employment with modifiable drivers of health could unlock years of higher-quality life and create trillions of dollars of economic value.
Article - McKinsey Health Institute
How to achieve great health for all? Start in your city.
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MHI estimates that a focus on immediately influenceable interventions at the city level can add approximately 20 billion to 25 billion years of higher-quality life at a global level.
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
Closing the women’s health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies
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Investments addressing the women’s health gap could add years to life and life to years—and potentially boost the global economy by $1 trillion annually by 2040.
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Advancing our mission to add years to life and life to years
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Prioritizing brain health: Scaling what works to add years to life and life to years
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How many more years can be spent in optimal health if our society viewed mental and substance-use disorders as we do other conditions? The McKinsey Health Institute and the Healthy Brains Global Initiative collaboration sought to answer this question through a series of interactives.
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
Moving the needle on burnout: What does the data say?
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The interactive illustrates the opportunity for employers to address key workplace factors (toxic workplace behavior, inclusivity, supportive growth environment, and sustainable work) and the potential impact on key outcomes (work engagement, job satisfaction, burnout symptoms, and intent to leave).
Interactive - McKinsey Health Institute
Scale what works: The benefits of proven health interventions
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Interactive visualization showing the opportunity to extend and improve life through known health interventions.
Interactive
The well-being of working parents
Working parents have faced significant challenges to their mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have struggled to balance their dual roles and report feeling exhausted, cynical, and ineffective.
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Open-access Vulnerable Populations Dataset
Explore 100+ metrics down to the county level on the distribution of populations with vulnerabilities across physical health, behavioral health, and social and economic health.
Founding perspectives
Article - McKinsey Health Institute
The secret to great health? Escaping the healthcare matrix
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The blueprint to achieve a lifetime of great health is increasingly clear and within our control. But unlocking it requires challenging the orthodoxies currently guiding individuals and institutions.
Article - McKinsey Health Institute
In sickness and in health: How health is perceived around the world
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A new McKinsey Health Institute survey examines the views of residents in 19 countries on their physical, mental, social, and spiritual health.
Report - McKinsey Health Institute
Adding years to life and life to years
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At least six years of higher quality life for everyone is within reach.
Conversations on Health
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
A ‘universal human right’: Quality mental healthcare for children
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Improving mental health globally demands an equitable, evidence-based, and holistic approach that encompasses the specific needs of children and young people, says UNICEF’s Zeinab Hijazi.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
The business of healthcare: ‘I’m always optimistic about what’s possible’
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Clinician and business executive Cheryl Pegus shares her bold vision for healthcare and the role businesses can play in ensuring everyone has access to high-quality healthcare.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
‘We need to invest in health workers between major pandemics—not just when we have a pandemic’
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Former US government official and long-time social entrepreneur Raj Panjabi shares insights on the importance of community health workers and on how being a refugee connects to his perspective on health equity.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
‘There is only one world, and it must have room for all of us’
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Linamara Battistella, MD, shares insights from more than three decades promoting rehabilitation, accessibility, and rights for people with disabilities in Brazil and beyond.