Ahoud Al Roumi: Welfare is the core of the UAE's business sectors

"The UAE has a comprehensive strategy to spread well-being in all institutions," she said. "The Ministry of Health and Community Protection is working to improve this strategy. Every institution in the country is responsible for this," she said.

"Our role at the summit is to shape the future of governments, based on well-being, not only in education, health and infrastructure, because well-being must," she said at the launch of the 2019 World Report on Happiness and Quality of Life. Be the core of all sectors of the work, so we in the UAE we seek to spread the concept of well-being in all our policies and systems and sectors ».

She pointed to the existence of employees concerned with happiness and well-being in each sector and institution of the state, pointing to the development of a tool to analyze and measure the benefits and cost of welfare, stressing the need to look at the corner of well-being and happiness from a comprehensive perspective.

The World Report on Happiness and Quality of Life policies 2019 states that people devote about 10% of their income to health care, pointing out that high spending on health does not always increase the average age.

He pointed out that the burden of mental illness is a major problem in achieving happiness, stressing that high-income countries are very interested in the issue of investment in mental health, especially as reports show that every dollar spent on the treatment of depression and anxiety, provides the same amount of health care costs of physical diseases.

He stressed that improving the health care at the last stages of life is important for happiness, noting that interventions that support the patient's loved ones and counseling in the event of grief, or provide support after the funeral procession, must be taken into account.

He added that the quality of teachers' lives is an individual, collective, community and global responsibility, pointing out that there is a correlation between the quality of life of employees and their productivity.

The report recommended organizing events to gather people to eat together, to enhance their sense of happiness, "because many people feel lonely in their lives."