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Tri-Long Nguyen1,2, Ji-Young Lee3
1Department of Public Health, Section of Epidemiology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. long@sund.ku.dk.
Communications Medicine
|April 17, 2025
Summary
Practicing kindness universally can be an effective public health strategy to address the global mental health crisis. This grassroots approach is costless, ethical, and immediately actionable for individuals and communities.
Area of Science:
- Public Health
- Preventive Medicine
- Epidemiology
Background:
- The global mental health crisis requires innovative public health interventions.
- Existing approaches may be insufficient or inaccessible.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the potential of universal kindness as a public health promotion action.
- To assess the ethical implications and feasibility of practicing kindness.
Main Methods:
- Utilized empirical evidence from randomized controlled trials.
- Applied Rose's theoretical framework of preventive medicine.
- Incorporated epidemiological principles.
Main Results:
- Universal kindness demonstrated potential as an effective grassroots public health promotion.
- Kindness is costless, socially just, consensual, empowering, and readily available.
- The practice can propagate from individual to collective levels.
Conclusions:
- Universal kindness is a viable and ethical public health strategy.
- Immediate individual practice of kindness is advocated, compatible with research and policy.
- Structural changes and further research should not delay individual kindness initiatives.
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