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The missing billion: Lack of disability data impedes healthcare equity
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Addressing the absence of health data on people with disabilities is the essential first step health systems and policy makers can take to reduce care inequity and improve outcomes for this population.
Podcast - McKinsey Health Institute
Getting to the bottom of the teen mental health crisis
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From identifying the effects of social media and the COVID-19 pandemic, to overcoming stigma and expanding accessibility to care, there’s lots to unpack around teen mental health. How do we help tomorrow’s workforce today?
Article - McKinsey Health Institute
Age is just a number: How older adults view healthy aging
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The results of a survey from the McKinsey Health Institute shed light on the health perceptions and priorities of people aged 55 and older.
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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.
Interactive
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
‘Older workers are good for business’: AARP CEO Jo Ann Jenkins
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The head of a renowned organization that advocates for older adults makes the business case for a healthy, happy intergenerational workforce.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
Young children are experiencing trauma: How Sesame Street wants to help
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Sesame Workshop’s Jeanette Betancourt explains what the show and the organization behind it are doing to address trauma and emotional well-being for young children.
Interview
The power of caring adults: Nicole Carroll on overcoming childhood trauma
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USA Today’s top editor discusses mental health, the media’s role and responsibility, and how she draws from her own experiences to make a professional impact.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
‘Our vision is a Friendship Bench within walking distance—everywhere’
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Zimbabwe-based psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda shares insights on mental health, the evolution of his community-based Friendship Bench initiative, and why grandmothers make great talk therapists.
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The power of caring adults: Nicole Carroll on overcoming childhood trauma
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USA Today’s top editor discusses mental health, the media’s role and responsibility, and how she draws from...