Brain health is essential for smooth economic transitions: towards socio-economic sustainability, productivity and well-being.

Journal: Brain communications

Volume: 6

Issue: 6

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Affiliated Institutions:  Neuro-Policy Program, Center for Health and Bioscience, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, TX , USA. BrainLat, University Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago , Chile. NeuroCentury, Brussels , Belgium. Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Dublin D PN, Ireland. Brain Research Africa Initiative (BRAIN), Yaoundé , Cameroon. Mental Wealth Initiative, The University of Sydney, Sydney , Australia. Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London, London WT NE, UK. EcoNeuro, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm , Sweden. USAgainstAlzheimer's, Washington, DC -, USA. Department of Neuroscience, Wharton Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA , USA. Evelina London Children's Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE EH, UK. Department of Neurosciences, Brain and Behavior Cluster, Universiti Sains Malaysia, School of Medical Sciences/Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan , Malaysia. Neurology, Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences, New Delhi , India. Mind and Brain Institute, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Perkins & Will, Dallas, TX , USA. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA , USA. Institute of Global Health and Human Ecology, The American University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. International Neuro Climate Working Group, Columbia University, New York, NY , USA. European Brain Council, Brussels , Belgium. Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA , USA. Regional Centre for Neurosurgery, Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto, Nigeria. Department of Surgery and Neuroscience Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Neuroscience Lab, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Neurology Department, Inselspital (CLAB), University of Bern, Bern , Switzerland.

Abstract summary 

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.

Authors & Co-authors:  Nail-Beatty Olivia O Ibanez Agustin A Ayadi Rym R Swieboda Pawel P Njamnshi Alfred K AK Occhipinti Jo-An JA Hynes William W Ikiz Burcin B Castro-Aldrete Laura L O'Brien Kelly K Platt Michael L ML Adalat Shazia S Abdullah Jafri Malin JM Dhamija Rajinder K RK Merali Zul Z Mostert Cyprian C Beck Debbie D Saxena Shekhar S Salama Mohamed M Abdelraheem Omnia M OM Destrebecq Frederic F Slavich George M GM Shehu Bello B Fieggen Graham G Ghogomu Paul M PM Bassetti Claudio L A CLA Eyre Harris A HA

Study Outcome 

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Citations :  Hippe R, Fouquet R. The human capital transition and the role of policy 2015. Accessed 1 June 2024. https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Working-Paper-185-Hippe-Fouquet1.pdf
Authors :  27
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Doi : fcae360
SSN : 2632-1297
Study Population
Male,Female
Mesh Terms
Other Terms
brain health;economics;mental health;neurology;transition
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England