Over the last year I’ve been advising the government’s landmark Foresight Project on Mental Capital and Well-Being. This week the project, headed by the government’s Chief Scientific Advisor Professor John Beddington, delivered the full report and I’ve been in London all week helping with the launch of this ground-breaking work that has involved more than 450 experts from all over the UK and the rest of the world.
Over the next couple of weeks, I will be posting reflections on the project’s findings. For now, you can read the BBC coverage of the report launch which includes comments I was asked to give earlier in the week.
To read the story on the BBC website go to:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7680788.stm
Hi professor Cooper, very nice report, indeed. As I’m a researcher in occupational health, I especially liked the part on working life exposures and mental capital. How should we measure mental capital, i.e. what would be the best way of operationalizing a variable measuring mental capital?