Digitalisation for mental health and well-being: cocreating collaboration for a healthy society

Mental health and well-being have been identified as key to peaceful, healthy and inclusive societies. The possibilities to strengthen development of mental capital need to increase in Sweden and globally.

This requires  that we simultaneously develop strategies and interventions to promote psychological and social capabilties, prevent mental illness in everyday settings and develop health care that can treat mental illness successfully.Digitalisation provides opportunities to create cohesive action to coordinate between disciplines and to develop the right methods for working with these challenges in each domain.

But do we have the right setup to develop quickly enough together between the different academic disciplines and between academia and decisionmakers in the relevant sectors?Mental health and wellbeing affects of almost all areas of society: safe public transport, city planning with green spaces, a working labour market, early interventions for those at risk: these are only a few examples where scientific evidense has been generated already.

But collaboration between the domains is unfortunately still in its infancy.

Digitalisation through more data-driven coordination and innovation is growing and shows both promissing and challenging results.The goals witn the conference are to:Map and show-case platforms and initiatives that have been developed in Sweden,identify needs and gaps that need to be addressed,find synergies between different disciplines.The conference will consist of inspirational lectures and showcases, and cocreation of collaborative structures.The intended audience is around 120 persons, och which a third from academia, a thrid from health care and a third from other societal actors, and will be held in close collaboration with E-MHIC (E-Mental Health International Collaborative)