HEALTH & WELLNESS
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Work Place Culture & the Essential Need for
“Diverse Mental Health” We cannot fail to recognise, how leaders and businesses are now faced with the challenge of how to genuinely and realistically respond to the burning interest and need for sufficient diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), as well as good mental health, wellbeing and wellness within their workplace culture. Such focus has never been stronger; sparked by the Me-too Movement highlighting abuse against women, the recent Global Covid-19 Pandemic and its impact on mental health, as well as the powerful wave of racial and social justice protests and commentaries.
— BY CAROLINE RIBEIRO-NELSON The path to meeting this challenge, is one less
injustice and mistreatment. This is particularly
travelled and is not an easy one, however with
evident for Women, Black people, “People
genuine commitment and on-going investment
of Colour” (POC)”, Indigenous communities,
hugely valuable progress can be made. One
members of the LGBT+ community, those with
thing clearly required, is the willingness to
a disability, from a different ethnic background,
acknowledge, discuss and address the very
religion, economic or social status and the older
issues, many people and organisations find
population. The impact, of these detrimental
uncomfortable and difficult to address. Namely,
DEI factors can be seen in higher rates of
the stigma, prejudice, discrimination, abuse
mental health problems in comparison to their
and inequity related to poor mental health,
counterparts and other groups.
mental illness, women and people from diverse backgrounds.
When people within society are continually confronted, from an early age, with negative and
MENTAL HEALTH & DETRIMENTAL DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION FACTORS
harmful experiences, the development of poor
There reality is, that within the workplace and
HOW BUSINESSES CAN EFFECTIVELY MOVE FORWARD WITH PRODUCTIVE MENTAL HEALTH, WELLBEING, WELLNESS & DEI
wider society, there exists negative bias and harmful behaviour, which is perpetrated through racism, sexism, other isms, discrimination, violent attacks, threats, abuse, exclusion, inequity,
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mental health, deficient well-being and mental ill health is inevitable.
