Mental Capital and Wellbeing Project Outputs
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Final Project reports
Science synthesis reports and evidence reviews
- Mental capital through life: Future challenges (1,339kb)

- Mental capital through life: Science reviews
- Learning through life: Future challenges (1,758kb)

- Learning through life: Science reviews
- Mental health: Future challenges (3,071kb)

- Mental health: Science reviews
- SR-B1: Genetics of mental ill-health in children and adults and interaction of genes with social factors
- SR-B2: The influence of demographic, social and physical factors on ageing and the mental health of older people
- SR-B3: The influence of social, demographic and physical factors on positive mental health in children, adults and older people
- SR-B4: The influence of social, demographic and physical factors on mental disorders in children and adolescents
- SR-B5: The mental ill-health of prisoners
- SR-B6 The mental ill-health of homeless people
- SR-B7: The mental ill-health of children in local authority care
- SR-B8: Mental ill-health: cost implications
- SR-B9: Factors influencing recovery from serious mental illness and enhancing participation in family, social and working life
- SR-B10: The influence of social, demographic, physical and any other risk factors on the prevalence and consequences of personality disorders
- SR-B11: Epidemiological linkages between mental ill-health and violence: risk factors and wider consequences
- SR-B12: Genetics of ageing, mental ill-health and dementia in the elderly
- SR-B13: The mental ill-health of people who migrate, and their descendants: risk factors, associated disability and wider consequences
- SR-B14: Influence of social, demographic and physical factors on substance abuse in all age groups
- SR-B15: Neurocognition and neuroimaging in major depressive disorder and bipolar depression: implications for treatment and functional outcome
- Wellbeing and work: Future challenges (3,167kb)

- Wellbeing and work: Science reviews
- Learning difficulties: Future challenges (1,750kb)

- Learning difficulties: Science reviews
- Cross-Project papers
In addition, a number of discussion papers, workshop reports and contractual reports, referred to in the text of the final report, are available on request from foresightweb@bis.gsi.gov.uk. These are contractual reports that document work commissioned by the Project but are not formal Project outputs. As such, the views expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the Government Office for Science, nor the policy of the UK Government.
Please note:
1: Some report numbers were originally reserved for reports which were subsequently not commissioned.
2: In the science synthesis reports, blank pages have been removed from the downloadable PDF documents above. The page numbers, however, match the hardcopy reports which will include some blank pages where appropriate.