Catherine Conlon: New priorities needed to change our unhealthy, unequal, and dissatisfied world

The constant emphasis on economic progress as a measure of a country’s wellbeing has failed us, given the high levels of physical and mental ill-health in rich countries.

Students of four national schools in Clonakilty town gathered for the Big Cycle To School. Picture: Dermot Sullivan

The Healthy Ireland (HI) survey is an interview-administered survey of health and health behaviours of people living in Ireland, commissioned by the Department of Health, and carried out by Ipsos.

In this sixth wave of the survey since its inception in 2015, the starkest findings centre around mental health and suicide.