The mental health working party aims to raise the level of understanding of mental health amongst actuaries, promote the consideration of mental health in the design of products and processes and explore data and modelling for mental health risk factors.
Key objectives
- Raise the level of understanding and awareness of mental health amongst actuaries and insurance professionals.
- Promote the consideration of mental health in the design of products and processes in actuarial work.
- Collate and disseminate the latest thinking and research on mental health risk factors, and the wider impact of mental health on morbidity and mortality.
- Reach out to mental health charities and consumer groups to strengthen trust, build community and support them, where appropriate, in advocating for change in the insurance and financial services industry.
Outputs
- Data and modelling considerations for mental health in life insurance - British Actuarial Journal 22 August 2022
- Bringing data to mind: understanding mental health - The Actuary Magazine, 6 July 2022
- Bringing our work into the actuarial syllabus - Blog, 11 May 2022
- Mental Health and Life Insurance: Data and Modelling - Blog, 11 May 2022
- Mental health in insurance week series - each blog has a link to the associated podcast:
- Mental Health in Life Insurance: Triggers to Purchasing Insurance | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- Mental Health in Life Insurance: Access to insurance with consideration of consumers who have a mental health condition. | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- Mental Health in Life Insurance: Underwriting mental health conditions | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- Mental Health in Life Insurance: Mental Health and Disability Insurance Claims | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- Mental Health in Life Insurance: How the claims process for income protection supports mental health vulnerability | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- A look back on Mental Health in Life Insurance week | Institute and Faculty of Actuaries Blog
- Mental health in insurance webinar: Where are we as an industry and how can we improve? - 4 February 2022
- Health and Care 2021 webinar - 1 December 2021
- Mental Health: disrupting the vicious circle -Blog, 30 November 2021
- Encouraging openness on Mental Health -The Actuary Magazine, 5 August 2021
Access to webinars can be found on the Online learning videos resource webpage via the Resources for Practice Areas (please note that you will be required to log into the VLE)
Planned outputs
- Presentations at actuarial conferences/events
- LinkedIn posts, blogs
- Short research paper summarising findings
| Chair: | Chris Knight |
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| Membership: | 18 |
| Established: | 2020 |
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