BodyShock Winner Profile: Gaming for Mental Health
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We're excited to start releasing the winning presentations from the BodyShock the Future contest for ideas to improve global health that was held this summer.
- Alexandra Carmichael's blog
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Do Your Best Job Ever!?
Job satisfaction is at a two-decade low, so I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise that employers have begun enlisting the help happiness coaches as part of their workplace wellness programs.
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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Innovation and mental health
The folks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Changemakers.net are at it again. They are holding another open innovation competition aimed at improving health around the world (see this post about their "Designing for Better Health" initiative). This time, they asking people to share their ideas for "improving mental health and community wellbeing."
- Vivian Distler's blog
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Does Depression Serve a Purpose?
Depression, the mental health variety, doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense, at least from an evolutionary perspective. Lots of people are depressed--as many as 50 percent, according to some high-end estimates--and it strikes across age and cultures, making depression appear to be some fundamental part of human genetics rather than a quirk of urban living, say.
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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