Mental health at work

Over the last decade, mental health has gained increasing prominence, but too often the burden is still put on individuals to make the difference.

We all have mental health, and while knowing how to understand it, protect it and sustain it is important, our environment is key to ensuring good mental health for all. That means governments and employers need to take mental health seriously.

Slogans, lunchtime yoga classes and crisis helplines can help, but what really matters is the underlying structures that contribute to mental health – we need to move to a model where preventing mental health problems is the top priority.