Wellness Economy Research
Webinar Series
GWI’s researchers are the pioneers and powerhouse team that have defined and measured the global wellness economy and its 11 sectors for the last 15 years. How do they do this work? What are their current and evolving thoughts on the wellness economy? In this quarterly webinar series, GWI Research Fellows Ophelia Yeung, Katherine Johnston, and Tonia Callender will give listeners a window into their research process and will share their latest conversations and thinking on the issues and trends affecting the global wellness economy and its many sectors. Keeping current with top news, issues and trends in the global wellness economy, the topic for each webinar will be announced closer to the event date. View full series
Topic: Mental Wellness
Faced with worsening mental health and rising rates of loneliness, global communities are searching for ways to promote our well-being. On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, from 11AM-12PM, the GWI Research Fellows discussed how mental wellness policy can promote resilience and support community connections. They explored the link between mental wellness and mental health and introduce GWI’s latest toolkit on Mental Wellness Policy.
Exciting New Research Will be Unveiled at the Webinar on June 26
Mental Wellness Policy Toolkit
The Global Wellness Institute’s (GWI’s) research team will release another groundbreaking report: the Mental Wellness Policy Toolkit. Globally, rising rates of depression, anxiety, and loneliness are threatening our individual and societal wellbeing. Mental wellness represents a critical, but often overlooked resource to improve our collective resilience. The Mental Wellness Policy Toolkit shows communities, businesses and public policy makers why, and how, they should use targeted policies to promote mental wellness. Whether you want to focus on advocacy, awareness, specific programs, services, products, or research, this toolkit will help you to identify concrete actions to equitably address the most pressing challenges to people’s mental wellbeing.
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2023 Global Wellness Economy Monitor (2019-2022 data)
The 2023 Global Wellness Institute research reveals that the wellness economy has made a powerful recovery from the pandemic, reaching $5.6 trillion in 2022. This report is packed with data capturing the growth and trends in the global wellness economy and its 11 sectors from 2019-2022.
2024 Global Wellness Economy: Country Rankings (2019-2022 data)
A companion to GWI’s 2023 Global Wellness Economy Monitor, this report is the only place to find detailed regional and country-level data on the size of the wellness industry. It ranks 145 countries by the size of their wellness economies…
2020 Defining the Mental Wellness Economy