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Article - McKinsey Health Institute
Reframing employee health: Moving beyond burnout to holistic health
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A new McKinsey Health Institute survey across 30 countries offers insights into how organizations can help create a workplace that prioritizes physical, mental, social, and spiritual health.
Article - McKinsey Health Institute
Aging with purpose: Why meaningful engagement with society matters
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A McKinsey Health Institute analysis shows older adults are happier and healthier when they engage more in society—and helping them do so could benefit the economy.
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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.
Featured Interactives
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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
‘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.
Interview - McKinsey Health Institute
Harnessing mindful philanthropy to improve population health
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Social entrepreneur Tyler Norris champions health advocacy through a wide range of leadership roles and global initiatives aimed at advancing physical, mental, social, and spiritual health for all.
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
‘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.