“mental health” Problems Commonly Faced in Working Age. and tends to increase It is considered a major cause of illness and loss in Thailand and worldwide. Important factors influencing the incidence of mental health problems during working age include work-related stress. Inappropriate environment Lack of work-life balance. Work-life balance and incompatibility
Job expectations and job constraints create stress. Stress affecting health Health problems are also personal conditions. It is a sensory matter and does not involve obvious physical injuries or symptoms. As a result, employee mental health issues are often overlooked.
Department of Mental Health Thai in collaboration with PBS and network partners organized an activity called “Hack the Mind” to brainstorm ideas to come up with 8 mind-healing innovations. Promoting and preventing mental health with 8 organizations from the public and private sectors for good mental health. Awakening the system of happiness and building inner strength through the hackathon process with 8 challenging problems by 8 groups of participants from the public and private sectors engaged in promoting and preventing mental health.
8 Innovations to Heal the Mind, Awaken the Company with Joy, and Build Mental Power
For an activity called “Hack,” Jay organized to collect ideas for sustainable improvement and prevention of mental health. It is a place to exchange knowledge. And the skills of each organization were used to generate results in promoting and preventing mental health. Divided into 8 issues, including networking to develop programs, objectives or policies to promote and prevent mental health:
1. Innovation
2. Digital economy
3. Judicial system
4. Law enforcer
5. Communication (Communication)
6. Urban Design (Property & Urban)
7. Insurance business
8. Structure of Happiness (Food)
Why? Maintaining mental health is important at every age.
1. Jai Fu Community, Topic: “Innovation”, Problem Owner: National Institute of Innovation (Public Organization)
The National Institute of Innovation is part of Thai Psychiatric Research. Design Innovation “Jay Fu Community” mental healthWell, let's start with everyone. The goal is to develop a community that has its own potential as a buffer community for the provision of mental health services. Promote, support, prevent and rehabilitate which reduces the burden on the medical workforce, creating a society with sustainable mental health.
NIA's innovation is to create a new generation of youth, influencers, homes, temples and schools to create a “Jai Fu Community”. Changing behavior, thinking and understanding of well-being to achieve sustainability.
2. Let's ask the owner of the question “happy job” topic: food passion.
The happiness system aims to promote mental health in the organization across generations. From mental health problems that can happen to everyone. The digital world has both positive and negative effects on mental health. The knowledge and understanding of the health of the people in the organization is not enough, thus making the Food Passion or Babikan think of the program “Fung Kan Kon” as a representative to ask the employees in the organization about mental health.
An action plan is divided into 3 steps: shot term, employee data collection, interim data analysis. Classify the problem and find a solution for each problem. Long term. Follow up and check your mental health with experts. and targets for 2025, the organization hopes it will create listeners who go beyond ordinary sounds. But we will listen with our hearts and be ready to solve persistent mental health issues together.
3. Transition Training Center “Transition Training Center” Subject: Justice System (Justice System) Question Owner: Department of Juvenile Probation and Protection
The Department of Child Protection and Care has a duty to monitor, treat and rehabilitate children under the age of 18 who engage in criminal activity. 85% of children can change their behavior through the training and practice process. But not all children can follow rules or change behavior. This led to many more conflicts. So the Vigilance Department should have a “remedial training center” for children with violent behavior.
For an action plan driven by 3 parts: training, systems and policy to drive change under the 3S's: Safety, Success, Sustainability, Sustainability in childcare. In order to have a ready workforce
From working with fear to working with joy. Equip staff with skills to manage the care of specific children, such as violence, to ensure stability and safety of the training center leading to more effective management.
The mental health of happy working people means happier work outcomes
4. Happy Hub. I work here. The happy center. Topic: “Digital Economy”. Title: Electronic Transactions Development Corporation.
In the past since the Covid-19 crisis, it has made employees ineffective at work. 47% of employees feel tired and want to quit. Survey results revealed that working-age Gen Y and Gen Z, up to 71%, want to take time off.
E-Transactions Development Company is thinking about a mental health program for future working people to create a new work norm in the era of E-Working so that workers will be happy with work that achieves goals by creating a foundation identity “Happy Hub, Working Here, Very Happy Hub”.
The action plan is to create a sandbox to bring together relevant public and private sector partners to “Reduce Rules, Increase Profits” at work, to get a guaranteed token of trust, and to reduce rules that hinder freedom and happiness at work. Organizational standards for maintaining mental health of employees to attract more working age people to the organization.
5. PEACE OF MIND, ALERT, MICHI Title: Contact Question Proprietor: Advanced Info Service Public Company Limited AIS.
Last year data for 2023 in Thailand contained 400,002 cyber threats. As a result of 53,876,411,222 baud of fraud through SMS, phone calls and fake pages, AIS has developed a one-stop service, Peace of Mind, Alert, Mickey in collaboration with Cyber Police and Mental Health Department. Notification of incoming calls through “Alert” site for cyber alert to help prevent and give awareness. To check if there is any suspicious behavior in the line or not. There is also a reporting center for cheaters.
AIS will coordinate with cyber police and the bank to freeze the account and follow up on the status of the case. Inform users about the operational process. Counseling is provided to those who have been financially and emotionally cheated.
6. Hack Jay Insurance, Title: “Insurance Business”, Issue Owner: Bangkok Insurance Public Company Limited.
From the current mental health situation in Thailand, there has been a rapid increase in the number of mental patients within 8 years, but at the same time Thailand does not have enough mental health workers to meet the demand. Bangkok Insurance Public Company Limited, an insurance company representative, developed the “Hack Jai Insurance” scheme, which the insurance company is the initiator and responsible for.
Any organization that wants to use a database with the government as its sponsor makes the private sector an important mechanism for getting cooperation from multiple sectors. Relevant information should be shared. Expand the database to insurances other than health. The main objective is to provide mental health insurance to people. and improving people's access to mental health services.
Starting with HERO Protector, builds a city of happiness.
7.Hero Protector Title: Law Enforcer Problem Owner: Central Bureau of Investigation
A so-called “policeman” who protects people is supposed to be free from suffering Improve people’s health Under pressure from society and work under limited conditions and hours In addition, the workload is high and company values cause accumulated stress that affects mental health, the “hero protector” has good mental health costs. An invention to make police officers heroes. By creating a “clubhouse” space to discuss matters of interest. And know the thoughts in the mind This can start with a small group like Central Intelligence Police. And that area should be expanded to other areas where it is appropriate to create happiness and exchange ideas and help police officers to reduce work pressure.
8.Smiling Cities, Happy Cities, Urban Design (Urban Planning) topic from the owner of Urban Planning Problem – Tuture Tales Lab by MQD
More than 13 million Thais care about the environment. Volatile economies must adapt to their ever-changing digital and technological world. “Smiling Cities, Happy Urban Areas” for a better future for everyone who neglects to take care of themselves physically and mentally.
By Urban Planning – Dutcher Tales Lab by MQD is a new urban project that focuses on creating a city of smiles, a city of happiness. The main objective is to create a safe city. Preventing disasters, accidents, crime and disease from an urban data base. Cities should be beautiful and livable. Design guidelines improve the area to beautify it. By putting people's mental health at the center and creating a mental city, mental health promotion, mental health service area measures and areas to improve mental health literacy so that all groups can have consistent access to services.
The Mind Hack activity “is because mental health is everyone's issue,” said Thai PBS director Ashok. Prof. Dr. Vilasini Bipitkul said. Not only this time. But there should be more such activities. Because the results of this activity show that there are concrete solutions to mental health problems. As a public medium, it hopes to have an impact on the larger society.
8 by all novelty The takeaways from this hackathon are ready to co-host and will definitely inspire us to work together in the future. Thailand PBS believes that it can continue to follow and push forward in principle and work together to make change and build stronger mental health in the community.
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