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World Mental Health Day focus: Mental well-being for a thriving workforce
World Mental Health Day (WMHD), on 10th October, provides a chance to raise awareness of the mental health issues so many of us will be touched by at one time or another. Populations the world over are experiencing an upsurge in the awareness and destigmatisation of mental health conditions, from stress to chronic anxiety and depression. And workplaces trying to build mentally and physically fit, resilient, productive workforces are no exception.
Yet, according to a recent survey, 87% of employees indicated some level of concern that stress could one day impact their ability to work, and just 25% of HR Directors agreed their company provides good support for stress currently.1
When your people thrive…
We are championing good mental health at work — as part of every organisation’s focus on total well-being. After all, when your people thrive, your business flourishes.
Mental health support resources
Inspired by World Mental Health Day on 10th October, we have launched a Mental health support resources library on Aetnainternational.com. The clinician-designed resources are intended to help organisations have meaningful stress-management conversations with their leadership, employment policy makers and employees. We’re also launching a six-week social media campaign on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to raise awareness of the importance of taking stress-management action in the workplace, and to promote our employee assistance services.
We’ll be concentrating on ensuring employees have the information, support and coping techniques that will keep them emotionally fit, resilient and healthy, no matter where in the world they are living.
The topics we’ll be covering include:
- Tackling stress and nurturing mental health resilience in the workplace
- Overcoming stress and anxiety: an introduction to mindfulness
- Proactively managing stress through mindfulness, nutrition and exercise
- How to improve sleep quality to combat stress
- Stress prevention and management: sustaining healthy habits
- Confidential employee assistance: the personalised, on-demand support for individuals*
At Aetna International, our focus is on empowering individuals to make informed decisions about their mental and physical health to support healthy outcomes. To find out more about how to help raise awareness of mental health and drive stress-management action within your organisation:
*Aetna International's employee assistance services are standard to Aetna Summit plans 2500, 4000, 5000 and 5000+. Programme delivery methods may vary by plan or region. Please contact your account manager or plan sponsor for more information. For members with other plans, such as Aetna Pioneer, assistance services are available as optional buy up benefits.
1 Aetna International Thinking Health and Business and Personal Health Inertia research, August 2019. 4000 individuals and 1000 HR Directors across US, UK, Singapore and Dubai.
