Browsing by Author "Occhipinti, Jo-An"

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    Brain health is essential for smooth economic transitions: towards socio-economic sustainability, productivity and well-being
    (Oxford University Press, 2024) Nail-Beatty, Olivia; Ibanez, Agustin; Ayadi, Rym; Swieboda, Pawel; Njamnshi, Alfred K; Occhipinti, Jo-An; Hynes, William; Ikiz, Burcin; Castro-Aldrete, Laura; O’Brien, Kelly; Platt, Michael L; Adalat, Shazia; Abdullah, Jafri Malin; Dhamija, Rajinder K; Merali, Zul; Mostert, Cyprian; Beck, Debbie; Saxena, Shekhar; Salama, Mohamed; Abdelraheem, Omnia M; Destrebecq, Frederic; Slavich, George M; Shehu, Bello; Fieggen, Graham; Ghogomu, Paul M; Bassetti, Claudio L A; Eyre, Harris A; Baker Institute for Public Policy
    Optimal brain health is essential to smoothing major global skill-intensive economic transitions, such as the bioeconomy, green, care economy and digital transitions. Good brain health is vital to socio-economic sustainability, productivity and well-being. The care transition focuses on recognizing and investing in care services and care work as essential for economic growth and social well-being. The green transition involves shifting towards environmentally sustainable and fairer societies to combat climate change and environmental degradation. The digital transition aims to unlock digital growth potential and deploy innovative solutions for businesses and citizens, and to improve the accessibility and efficiency of services. The bioeconomy transition refers to the shift towards an economy based on products, services and processes derived from biological resources, such as plants and microorganisms. Brain capital, which encompasses brain health and brain skills, is a critical economic asset for the success of economies of the future. The brain economy transition from a brain-negative (brain-unhealthy) economy, which depletes brain capital, to a brain-positive (brain-healthy) economy, which arrests and reverses the loss of brain capital, will be foundational to these major transitions. Increased brain capital is vital to educational attainment, upskilling and reskilling. In this paper, we provide a detailed roadmap for the brain economy transition.
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    Navigating a stable transition to the age of intelligence: A mental wealth perspective
    (Elsevier, 2024) Occhipinti, Jo-An; Prodan, Ante; Hynes, William; Eyre, Harris A.; Schulze, Alex; Ujdur, Goran; Tanner, Marcel; Baker Institute for Public Policy
    In the grand narrative of technological evolution, we are transitioning from the “Age of Information” to the “Age of Intelligence.” Rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are set to reshape society, revolutionize industries, and change the nature of work, challenging our traditional understanding of the dynamics of the economy and its relationship with human productivity and societal prosperity. As we brace for this transformative shift, promising advancements in healthcare, education, productivity, and more, there are concerns of large-scale job loss, mental health repercussions, and risks to social stability and democracy. This paper proposes the concept of Mental Wealth as an action framework that supports nations to proactively position themselves for a smooth transition to the Age of Intelligence while fostering economic and societal prosperity.
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    Navigating a stable transition to the age of intelligence: A mental wealth perspective
    (Elsevier, 2024) Occhipinti, Jo-An; Prodan, Ante; Hynes, William; Eyre, Harris A.; Schulze, Alex; Ujdur, Goran; Tanner, Marcel
    In the grand narrative of technological evolution, we are transitioning from the “Age of Information” to the “Age of Intelligence.” Rapid advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are set to reshape society, revolutionize industries, and change the nature of work, challenging our traditional understanding of the dynamics of the economy and its relationship with human productivity and societal prosperity. As we brace for this transformative shift, promising advancements in healthcare, education, productivity, and more, there are concerns of large-scale job loss, mental health repercussions, and risks to social stability and democracy. This paper proposes the concept of Mental Wealth as an action framework that supports nations to proactively position themselves for a smooth transition to the Age of Intelligence while fostering economic and societal prosperity.
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    The influence of economic policies on social environments and mental health
    (World Health Organization, 2024) Occhipinti, Jo-An; Skinner, Adam; Doraiswamy, P. Murali; Saxena, Shekhar; Eyre, Harris A.; Hynes, William; Geli, Patricia; Jeste, Dilip V.; Graham, Carol; Song, Christine; Prodan, Ante; Ujdur, Goran; Buchanan, John; Rosenberg, Sebastian; Crosland, Paul; Hickie, Ian B.
    Despite increased advocacy and investments in mental health systems globally, there has been limited progress in reducing mental disorder prevalence. In this paper, we argue that meaningful advancements in population mental health necessitate addressing the fundamental sources of shared distress. Using a systems perspective, economic structures and policies are identified as the potential cause of causes of mental ill-health. Neoliberal ideologies, prioritizing economic optimization and continuous growth, contribute to the promotion of individualism, job insecurity, increasing demands on workers, parental stress, social disconnection and a broad range of manifestations well-recognized to erode mental health. We emphasize the need for mental health researchers and advocates to increasingly engage with the economic policy discourse to draw attention to mental health and well-being implications. We call for a shift towards a well-being economy to better align commercial interests with collective well-being and social prosperity. The involvement of individuals with lived mental ill-health experiences, practitioners and researchers is needed to mobilize communities for change and influence economic policies to safeguard well-being. Additionally, we call for the establishment of national mental wealth observatories to inform coordinated health, social and economic policies and realize the transition to a more sustainable well-being economy that offers promise for progress on population mental health outcomes.