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About the series
This webinar explored how the healthcare workforce can collaborate with government and industry partners in 2024 to uphold the commitments outlined in Australia’s first wellbeing framework – Measuring What Matters. It engaged Dr Katherine Trebeck, a respected political economist, writer and advocate who has long been working to change how people and policymakers think about and shape the economy. The conversation was led by Moniker Wheeler, CEO Healthy North Coast, alongside Georgina Bruinsma, Senior Manager Aboriginal Leadership and Engagement, Social Futures.
Key discussion points included:
- The effectiveness of Australia’s first wellbeing framework, Measuring What Matters in aligning economic policies with broader societal well-being goals.
- Insights into policies and approaches employed by countries like New Zealand, Scotland, and Finland to prioritise the well-being of people and the planet in economic decision-making.
- How to use the successes of other nations as a blueprint to integrate economic activities into healthcare practice to promote societal welfare, including factors such as health, education, social cohesion, environmental sustainability, and equitable resource distribution, thereby contributing to the overall well-being of individuals and communities.
- The importance of integrating the diverse perspectives of First Nations people and non-Indigenous Australians into healthcare delivery, policy formulation, and research and policy development processes to foster a sustainable and equitable economy aligned with broader societal well-being goals
Resources
a collection of mini briefing papers that look at the idea of a wellbeing economy, how it relates to other ideas for economic change, and what some of the core elements of a wellbeing economy are.
Measuring What Matters – Australia’s First Wellbeing Framework
An Australian framework that puts people and progress, fairness and opportunity at the very core of our thinking about our economy and our society, now and into the future.
This document provides an overview of the key terms and concepts used by the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) when discussing the Outcomes Framework. Appendix 2 is of particular significance.
Don’t Just Tell Me to Breathe –
This beautiful and timely animation speaks to the spiralling levels of anxiety and depression the UK and other rich nations are experiencing by revealing the often silenced links between these mental health crises and the current economic system, including not only the increasing pressures upon people’s basic needs, but also the ‘capitalist realism’ that allows climate breakdown to unfold before our very eyes. The film ends by introducing a Wellbeing Economy as a system that would function within social and environmental boundaries.
This Koala Has a Mental Health Problem
A cartoon that points to how we as a society can tend to view the issue of mental health problems as an individual issue and downplay — and oftentimes erase — the very real impact of the environment in which we live.
WEAll is the leading collaboration of organisations, alliances, movements and individuals working to transform the economic system
Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland
WEAll Scotland was one of the first national Wellbeing Alliance hubs to get going. Today there are over 15 in places like Wales, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Iceland, Netherlands, Denmark and East Africa.
Failure demand: easily understood, easily misunderstood
John Seddon outlines the cost associated with failure demand and why typical command and control responses misunderstand what failure demand is, and how best to respond to it. Registration required.
Failure Demand: Counting the costs of an unjust and unsustainable economic system
Examines two case studies of Scotland and Canada to demonstrate that in pursuit of economic growth – a stated goal of almost all governments – harm is caused to people and the planet.
A collection of case studies supporting wellbeing in business and economy.
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