PRACTITIONER BRIEFING: What should governments do to promote wellbeing? - Transforming Society

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PRACTITIONER BRIEFING: What should governments do to promote wellbeing? - Transforming Society

In this practitioner briefing, Matthew Fisher, author of How To Create Societies for Human Wellbeing, highlights how the growing failures of neoliberalism have sparked renewed interest from governments in policies to promote community and individual wellbeing. Wellbeing policies have huge, untapped potential to reduce the societal burden of psychological distress and mental ill-health. In Australia, around 40% of young adults now show symptoms o…