J.A. English-Lueck
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804771573
- eISBN:
- 9780804775793
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804771573.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There is no question that work and health are ...
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As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There is no question that work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have on a population largely entrusted with overseeing their own health needs? In California's Silicon Valley, a distinctive and medically diverse health culture has emerged. This book explores this health culture, detailing the biomedical, countercultural, and immigrant-based beliefs and practices that shape ideas about working, care-giving, and what it means to be healthy. The book shows that the integration of workplace productivity with personal health has created national patterns of discrimination against those not in the productive mainstream, including the unemployed, retired, and chronically ill. But new ideas about work and health can clarify core American values, highlight emerging global trends, and provide a vital assessment of the evolution of our shared pursuit of well-being. While policymakers debate the possibilities for health insurance reform and government provisions, they overlook this lived experience. The shift of responsibility from organization to individual, a key feature of late capitalism, has significant implications. Individuals are supposed to be unfettered innovators at work, while managing the mundane details of their pensions and health plans. Workers are simultaneously responsible for work projects and for themselves as projects. Here, where work and health collide, in the front offices and on the warehouse floors, is one of the key ways in which people, in the guise of workers, feel capitalism.Less
As the great American work-benefit experiment erodes, companies are increasingly asking people to take responsibility for managing their own health. There is no question that work and health are intertwined. But what effect does an intensely productive, globally connected, high-tech work environment have on a population largely entrusted with overseeing their own health needs? In California's Silicon Valley, a distinctive and medically diverse health culture has emerged. This book explores this health culture, detailing the biomedical, countercultural, and immigrant-based beliefs and practices that shape ideas about working, care-giving, and what it means to be healthy. The book shows that the integration of workplace productivity with personal health has created national patterns of discrimination against those not in the productive mainstream, including the unemployed, retired, and chronically ill. But new ideas about work and health can clarify core American values, highlight emerging global trends, and provide a vital assessment of the evolution of our shared pursuit of well-being. While policymakers debate the possibilities for health insurance reform and government provisions, they overlook this lived experience. The shift of responsibility from organization to individual, a key feature of late capitalism, has significant implications. Individuals are supposed to be unfettered innovators at work, while managing the mundane details of their pensions and health plans. Workers are simultaneously responsible for work projects and for themselves as projects. Here, where work and health collide, in the front offices and on the warehouse floors, is one of the key ways in which people, in the guise of workers, feel capitalism.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226779355
- eISBN:
- 9780226779386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226779386.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Middle East History
This chapter, which focuses on the creation of a culture of health in Palestine through antimalaria education and propaganda, discusses the success of Zionist antimalaria campaigns in transforming ...
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This chapter, which focuses on the creation of a culture of health in Palestine through antimalaria education and propaganda, discusses the success of Zionist antimalaria campaigns in transforming the physical topography of Palestine and describes their attempts do the same for its Jewish inhabitants and their bodies. It suggests that malaria and general hygiene education cannot be disentangled, explaining that the general issues of hygiene and health played a part in malaria prevention because other diseases could complicate a malaria attack.Less
This chapter, which focuses on the creation of a culture of health in Palestine through antimalaria education and propaganda, discusses the success of Zionist antimalaria campaigns in transforming the physical topography of Palestine and describes their attempts do the same for its Jewish inhabitants and their bodies. It suggests that malaria and general hygiene education cannot be disentangled, explaining that the general issues of hygiene and health played a part in malaria prevention because other diseases could complicate a malaria attack.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This book concerns the importance of achieving health equity throughout the United States. Its publication is timely, given the major challenges in American health care in recent years. These include ...
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This book concerns the importance of achieving health equity throughout the United States. Its publication is timely, given the major challenges in American health care in recent years. These include reductions in health care coverage, the loss of funding to tackle social determinants of health, and the growing risks associated with climate change. The abundant data that document health inequities in housing, education, incarceration, income, opportunity, and so much else in the United States reveal the extent of the health-based challenges the nation faces as a whole. With these issues in mind, this book tackles a variety of topics centered on a “Culture of Health,” and includes contributions from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conferences. The first part of this volume concerns the assets intrinsic to cultural identity and the contribution to the nation's well-being that this diversity brings. Next, the book calls attention to the places where people spend much of their time and shows how each setting has the power to generate health, or to undermine it. Finally, this book closes with a section on a broad range of interconnected topics that have drawn considerable attention from many fields and brought new perspectives to the table.Less
This book concerns the importance of achieving health equity throughout the United States. Its publication is timely, given the major challenges in American health care in recent years. These include reductions in health care coverage, the loss of funding to tackle social determinants of health, and the growing risks associated with climate change. The abundant data that document health inequities in housing, education, incarceration, income, opportunity, and so much else in the United States reveal the extent of the health-based challenges the nation faces as a whole. With these issues in mind, this book tackles a variety of topics centered on a “Culture of Health,” and includes contributions from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conferences. The first part of this volume concerns the assets intrinsic to cultural identity and the contribution to the nation's well-being that this diversity brings. Next, the book calls attention to the places where people spend much of their time and shows how each setting has the power to generate health, or to undermine it. Finally, this book closes with a section on a broad range of interconnected topics that have drawn considerable attention from many fields and brought new perspectives to the table.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0007
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter assesses the role of employers as Culture of Health mediators. With their significant influence over the lives of their workforce, employers have the authority to make choices that ...
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This chapter assesses the role of employers as Culture of Health mediators. With their significant influence over the lives of their workforce, employers have the authority to make choices that either promote or inhibit a Culture of Health within their organizations. They also may play important roles in building a Culture of Health in the communities in which they are located and where their employees live. The chapter then considers the approaches taken by three types of employers—Fortune 500 companies, a large retail chain, and the military. Two studies of Fortune 500 companies examine corporate transparency in reporting health-promotion policies and efforts to create healthy work environments and strengthen communities. Another study illustrates the feasibility of stabilizing work schedules of low-wage retail workers to benefit workers as well as store sales.Less
This chapter assesses the role of employers as Culture of Health mediators. With their significant influence over the lives of their workforce, employers have the authority to make choices that either promote or inhibit a Culture of Health within their organizations. They also may play important roles in building a Culture of Health in the communities in which they are located and where their employees live. The chapter then considers the approaches taken by three types of employers—Fortune 500 companies, a large retail chain, and the military. Two studies of Fortune 500 companies examine corporate transparency in reporting health-promotion policies and efforts to create healthy work environments and strengthen communities. Another study illustrates the feasibility of stabilizing work schedules of low-wage retail workers to benefit workers as well as store sales.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s third annual Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conference on the Gila River Indian Community in ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s third annual Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conference on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. In February 2018, on lands that indigenous peoples have long held sacred, in a state with a complex cultural history and a strong sense of place, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates gathered to talk about advancing a Culture of Health. Participants brought a variety of training experiences, background knowledge, and personal experiences with them, along with the unique perspectives they had gained by working across academic, government, clinical, and community settings, in rural and urban milieus, as well as with the many and varied populations who live in the United States. This intersectionality—on display both at the Sharing Knowledge conference and in this book—underscores the importance of achieving health equity throughout the country, which is the crosscutting focus of how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is advancing a Culture of Health. The contributors to this volume offer both data and personal insight to help one consider the structural constraints and conditions that often shape individual behavior, as well as the strategies that can lift up populations.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s third annual Sharing Knowledge to Build a Culture of Health conference on the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. In February 2018, on lands that indigenous peoples have long held sacred, in a state with a complex cultural history and a strong sense of place, researchers, policymakers, practitioners, and advocates gathered to talk about advancing a Culture of Health. Participants brought a variety of training experiences, background knowledge, and personal experiences with them, along with the unique perspectives they had gained by working across academic, government, clinical, and community settings, in rural and urban milieus, as well as with the many and varied populations who live in the United States. This intersectionality—on display both at the Sharing Knowledge conference and in this book—underscores the importance of achieving health equity throughout the country, which is the crosscutting focus of how the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is advancing a Culture of Health. The contributors to this volume offer both data and personal insight to help one consider the structural constraints and conditions that often shape individual behavior, as well as the strategies that can lift up populations.
Randall Horton
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780226501543
- eISBN:
- 9780226501710
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226501710.003.0014
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This paper examines key institutional and economic forces driving the rapid extension of the use of Western models of diagnosing and treating mental illness into all corners of the developing world. ...
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This paper examines key institutional and economic forces driving the rapid extension of the use of Western models of diagnosing and treating mental illness into all corners of the developing world. It examines the ways that problems in the American psychiatric research system, notably, ethnocentric biases and untoward economic influences, appear to be mirrored in the emerging international system, and how these may undercut the promised benefits of expanded mental health care to communities across the globe. It approaches these issues by examining the changing treatment of socio-cultural issues in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM] and the International Classification of Diseases [ICD]. While identifying persisting problems in the main body of the DSM-V, the paper notes the significant progress in thinking about the socio-cultural dimensions of mental health represented in the Cultural Formulation Interview included in the appendix of the work. Drawing on research from cultural and multi-cultural psychology, cultural psychiatry, and medical anthropology, the paper maps several out possible steps for establishing more responsive and well-grounded mental health practices to serve diverse communities within the United States and across the world.Less
This paper examines key institutional and economic forces driving the rapid extension of the use of Western models of diagnosing and treating mental illness into all corners of the developing world. It examines the ways that problems in the American psychiatric research system, notably, ethnocentric biases and untoward economic influences, appear to be mirrored in the emerging international system, and how these may undercut the promised benefits of expanded mental health care to communities across the globe. It approaches these issues by examining the changing treatment of socio-cultural issues in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [DSM] and the International Classification of Diseases [ICD]. While identifying persisting problems in the main body of the DSM-V, the paper notes the significant progress in thinking about the socio-cultural dimensions of mental health represented in the Cultural Formulation Interview included in the appendix of the work. Drawing on research from cultural and multi-cultural psychology, cultural psychiatry, and medical anthropology, the paper maps several out possible steps for establishing more responsive and well-grounded mental health practices to serve diverse communities within the United States and across the world.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0018
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This concluding chapter looks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) renewed resolve to highlight connections, rather than differences, when it talks about common problems, and to take ...
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This concluding chapter looks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) renewed resolve to highlight connections, rather than differences, when it talks about common problems, and to take evidence-based action grounded in that shared understanding. Despite an abundance of political rhetoric, this book has shown that there is ample enthusiasm for doing just that. A cross-sectional movement to address climate change is on the rise, bringing together businesses, hospitals, and activists. The opioid epidemic and its intersections with rural health and mass incarceration are gaining attention across partisan divides. Medical systems are integrating the social determinants of health into their care interventions, and novel payer initiatives are making it feasible to pilot test and evaluate innovation. Resilience also has come to the forefront as people learn more about the risks associated with childhood trauma, weather-related and human-spawned disasters, and community fragmentation, as well as the protective factors that can counter those stressors and foster personal and collective renewal. Ultimately, the pursuit of health equity remains the underpinning of everything the RWJF does. As they explore further the cultural aspect of a Culture of Health, they are bolstering their commitment to empower historically marginalized people.Less
This concluding chapter looks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) renewed resolve to highlight connections, rather than differences, when it talks about common problems, and to take evidence-based action grounded in that shared understanding. Despite an abundance of political rhetoric, this book has shown that there is ample enthusiasm for doing just that. A cross-sectional movement to address climate change is on the rise, bringing together businesses, hospitals, and activists. The opioid epidemic and its intersections with rural health and mass incarceration are gaining attention across partisan divides. Medical systems are integrating the social determinants of health into their care interventions, and novel payer initiatives are making it feasible to pilot test and evaluate innovation. Resilience also has come to the forefront as people learn more about the risks associated with childhood trauma, weather-related and human-spawned disasters, and community fragmentation, as well as the protective factors that can counter those stressors and foster personal and collective renewal. Ultimately, the pursuit of health equity remains the underpinning of everything the RWJF does. As they explore further the cultural aspect of a Culture of Health, they are bolstering their commitment to empower historically marginalized people.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter describes the multiple roles of modern media in determining not only what consumers know, but also how and what they think. The exponential growth of ideologically driven cable channels ...
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This chapter describes the multiple roles of modern media in determining not only what consumers know, but also how and what they think. The exponential growth of ideologically driven cable channels and social media, dovetailing with cutbacks in newspaper staffing and coverage, point to the many ways that the power and reach of media are shifting even as they continue to reshape American society and norms. In this environment, multiple media compete for viewers, readers, and listeners who will click on their websites, buy their products, sign their petitions, and often accept their spin, especially if it reinforces personal perspectives. Thoughtful information about complex public health issues is easily lost in that context, leading too many people to base their decision-making on incomplete, biased, and even inaccurate information. For the news media to help build a Culture of Health, people need to understand how it works, what it does, and how it can be used for widespread benefit.Less
This chapter describes the multiple roles of modern media in determining not only what consumers know, but also how and what they think. The exponential growth of ideologically driven cable channels and social media, dovetailing with cutbacks in newspaper staffing and coverage, point to the many ways that the power and reach of media are shifting even as they continue to reshape American society and norms. In this environment, multiple media compete for viewers, readers, and listeners who will click on their websites, buy their products, sign their petitions, and often accept their spin, especially if it reinforces personal perspectives. Thoughtful information about complex public health issues is easily lost in that context, leading too many people to base their decision-making on incomplete, biased, and even inaccurate information. For the news media to help build a Culture of Health, people need to understand how it works, what it does, and how it can be used for widespread benefit.
Alonzo L. Plough (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190080495
- eISBN:
- 9780190080525
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190080495.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
The world is currently in the midst of unprecedented challenges—from the impacts of climate change and the humanitarian crisis of forced migration, to the rise of nationalism and epidemic growth of ...
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The world is currently in the midst of unprecedented challenges—from the impacts of climate change and the humanitarian crisis of forced migration, to the rise of nationalism and epidemic growth of deaths of despair. These challenges require new approaches catalyzing communities, cities, and countries around the globe to embrace a well-being agenda to assess progress and guide solutions. Thus, this book provides ideas and guidance on advancing well-being locally, nationally, and internationally. It illuminates how diverse communities and cultures can work together to strengthen these efforts. Ultimately, the well-being framework offers an equity focus; a more human centered view of how things are going; holistic approaches; and interconnectedness. The goal here is to advance global dialogue and action on the well-being construct, and to inform the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) work with others to create a Culture of Health in the United States.Less
The world is currently in the midst of unprecedented challenges—from the impacts of climate change and the humanitarian crisis of forced migration, to the rise of nationalism and epidemic growth of deaths of despair. These challenges require new approaches catalyzing communities, cities, and countries around the globe to embrace a well-being agenda to assess progress and guide solutions. Thus, this book provides ideas and guidance on advancing well-being locally, nationally, and internationally. It illuminates how diverse communities and cultures can work together to strengthen these efforts. Ultimately, the well-being framework offers an equity focus; a more human centered view of how things are going; holistic approaches; and interconnectedness. The goal here is to advance global dialogue and action on the well-being construct, and to inform the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) work with others to create a Culture of Health in the United States.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0013
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter looks at the immediate effects and aftermath of disasters. Adverse environmental conditions resulting from climate change and human-made disasters are an increasingly serious health ...
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This chapter looks at the immediate effects and aftermath of disasters. Adverse environmental conditions resulting from climate change and human-made disasters are an increasingly serious health threat, especially to disenfranchised, vulnerable, and indigenous populations. The potential for community resilience is a bright spot among these challenges, especially where a commitment to social justice becomes the foundation for responding to the social and economic shocks associated with environmental catastrophes. As such, ensuring that communities are resilient enough to withstand the aftermath, consequences, and health impacts of these kinds of crises is foundational for building a Culture of Health. Experts in business, science, health, and philanthropy are now increasingly focused on strengthening a community's ability to withstand environmental events.Less
This chapter looks at the immediate effects and aftermath of disasters. Adverse environmental conditions resulting from climate change and human-made disasters are an increasingly serious health threat, especially to disenfranchised, vulnerable, and indigenous populations. The potential for community resilience is a bright spot among these challenges, especially where a commitment to social justice becomes the foundation for responding to the social and economic shocks associated with environmental catastrophes. As such, ensuring that communities are resilient enough to withstand the aftermath, consequences, and health impacts of these kinds of crises is foundational for building a Culture of Health. Experts in business, science, health, and philanthropy are now increasingly focused on strengthening a community's ability to withstand environmental events.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0010
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter addresses the unprecedented public health crisis of opioid addiction and deaths by overdose. The opioid epidemic demonstrates just how far many regions are from achieving a Culture of ...
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This chapter addresses the unprecedented public health crisis of opioid addiction and deaths by overdose. The opioid epidemic demonstrates just how far many regions are from achieving a Culture of Health. Advancing health equity requires addressing the multifaceted drivers of the opioid epidemic through innovative multisector programs that shift the emphasis from punishment and stigma to upstream solutions. Driven by an understanding of the unique cultural and historical contexts of their communities, front-line advocates and policymakers at all levels will need to collaborate on a package of well-coordinated strategies. The chapter then looks at states that are targeting both the supply of opioids and the demand for them with creative “whole community” approaches, shifting away from the criminal justice system, providing better access to treatment, and crafting innovative reimbursement strategies.Less
This chapter addresses the unprecedented public health crisis of opioid addiction and deaths by overdose. The opioid epidemic demonstrates just how far many regions are from achieving a Culture of Health. Advancing health equity requires addressing the multifaceted drivers of the opioid epidemic through innovative multisector programs that shift the emphasis from punishment and stigma to upstream solutions. Driven by an understanding of the unique cultural and historical contexts of their communities, front-line advocates and policymakers at all levels will need to collaborate on a package of well-coordinated strategies. The chapter then looks at states that are targeting both the supply of opioids and the demand for them with creative “whole community” approaches, shifting away from the criminal justice system, providing better access to treatment, and crafting innovative reimbursement strategies.
Carol Graham
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190080495
- eISBN:
- 9780190080525
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190080495.003.0003
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter discusses the measurement of well-being in a Culture of Health. The aggregate numbers and standard measures typically used to measure progress—growth rates, unemployment figures, and ...
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This chapter discusses the measurement of well-being in a Culture of Health. The aggregate numbers and standard measures typically used to measure progress—growth rates, unemployment figures, and stock market trends—mask the underlying crisis of social ill-being. In contrast, well-being metrics uncover the stories that these numbers do not tell. As such, incorporating measures of well-being to provide a more nuanced view of how people are doing; to inform policies to address serious pockets of ill-being and to enhance aggregate societal well-being; and to create a new narrative about social progress is a proposition whose time has come. Surveys are a standard data collection mechanism for well-being data, and there is now established best practice for implementing well-being surveys. A key consensus is on the importance of measuring three distinct dimensions of well-being: hedonic, evaluative, and eudaimonic. The chapter then describes hedonic metrics, evaluative metrics, and eudaimonic metrics. Ideal measurement practice includes all three sets of measures, as they each reveal different elements of quality of life and well-being, ranging from daily moods to life course evaluations to purposefulness or lack thereof.Less
This chapter discusses the measurement of well-being in a Culture of Health. The aggregate numbers and standard measures typically used to measure progress—growth rates, unemployment figures, and stock market trends—mask the underlying crisis of social ill-being. In contrast, well-being metrics uncover the stories that these numbers do not tell. As such, incorporating measures of well-being to provide a more nuanced view of how people are doing; to inform policies to address serious pockets of ill-being and to enhance aggregate societal well-being; and to create a new narrative about social progress is a proposition whose time has come. Surveys are a standard data collection mechanism for well-being data, and there is now established best practice for implementing well-being surveys. A key consensus is on the importance of measuring three distinct dimensions of well-being: hedonic, evaluative, and eudaimonic. The chapter then describes hedonic metrics, evaluative metrics, and eudaimonic metrics. Ideal measurement practice includes all three sets of measures, as they each reveal different elements of quality of life and well-being, ranging from daily moods to life course evaluations to purposefulness or lack thereof.
Holly Folk
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781469632797
- eISBN:
- 9781469632810
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469632797.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
The third chapter presents the steps by which early chiropractic became an organized system of health care: the elaboration of chiropractic theories, the establishment of training institutes like the ...
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The third chapter presents the steps by which early chiropractic became an organized system of health care: the elaboration of chiropractic theories, the establishment of training institutes like the Palmer School of Chiropractic (P.S.C.) in Davenport, Iowa, and the making of a collective consciousness for the profession. Though their relationship was fraught with hostility, D. D. Palmer had considerable help from his son, B. J. Palmer, in developing chiropractic, which they had to distinguish from systems like osteopathy, with which it often was confused. Spinal therapeutics were a major part of 19th century health culture, but not originally central to chiropractic treatment or the First Chiropractic Theory. After the Santa Barbara Incident, the Palmers adopted the neurocentric logic of Progressive Era popular physiology, where maintaining the health of the nervous system through care of the spine was prioritized in the Second Chiropractic Theory.Less
The third chapter presents the steps by which early chiropractic became an organized system of health care: the elaboration of chiropractic theories, the establishment of training institutes like the Palmer School of Chiropractic (P.S.C.) in Davenport, Iowa, and the making of a collective consciousness for the profession. Though their relationship was fraught with hostility, D. D. Palmer had considerable help from his son, B. J. Palmer, in developing chiropractic, which they had to distinguish from systems like osteopathy, with which it often was confused. Spinal therapeutics were a major part of 19th century health culture, but not originally central to chiropractic treatment or the First Chiropractic Theory. After the Santa Barbara Incident, the Palmers adopted the neurocentric logic of Progressive Era popular physiology, where maintaining the health of the nervous system through care of the spine was prioritized in the Second Chiropractic Theory.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- December 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190071400
- eISBN:
- 9780190071431
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190071400.003.0008
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter explores the root causes for the high rate of incarceration in the United States and its health-damaging consequences. Reducing incarceration levels, particularly in communities of color ...
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This chapter explores the root causes for the high rate of incarceration in the United States and its health-damaging consequences. Reducing incarceration levels, particularly in communities of color and disadvantage, is a vital building block of a Culture of Health. Addressing mass incarceration in the United States, however, requires a range of approaches and tactics that target multiple levels of the complex criminal justice system. The chapter then describes both broad-based solutions and targeted local efforts to break the cycle of incarceration at various points: before arrest, within prison walls, after release, and across generations. Changing the narrative is a feature of many efforts, as activists find new ways to talk about poverty, crime, and prison, and adults with a history of incarceration commit to renewing bonds with their children.Less
This chapter explores the root causes for the high rate of incarceration in the United States and its health-damaging consequences. Reducing incarceration levels, particularly in communities of color and disadvantage, is a vital building block of a Culture of Health. Addressing mass incarceration in the United States, however, requires a range of approaches and tactics that target multiple levels of the complex criminal justice system. The chapter then describes both broad-based solutions and targeted local efforts to break the cycle of incarceration at various points: before arrest, within prison walls, after release, and across generations. Changing the narrative is a feature of many efforts, as activists find new ways to talk about poverty, crime, and prison, and adults with a history of incarceration commit to renewing bonds with their children.
David Beaumont
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- August 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780192845184
- eISBN:
- 9780191937453
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780192845184.003.0005
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health, Epidemiology
What is health? What is wellbeing? Various definitions of health explored: a common-sense definition first. The health of middle-aged men and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of health and wellbeing ...
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What is health? What is wellbeing? Various definitions of health explored: a common-sense definition first. The health of middle-aged men and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of health and wellbeing programmes (including smartphone apps) in the workplace. US occupational physician, Dr Ray Fabius’ finding that such programmes work only in workplaces with a culture of health. Definition of health: the WHO’s definition (‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’), rejected as an unworkable tool; and one proposed in The Lancet in 2003 as ‘the ability to adapt’. Radically, this definition sees a patient in the context of their current life; the doctor’s role is to help the patient adapt to their prevailing condition. The social determinants of health. Dr Machteld Huber’s definition in The BMJ: ‘health is the ability to adapt and self-manage’. Her subsequent research and definition of six domains in which health manifested. Patients and nurses gave all six about equal weight, but policymakers rated bodily functions as much more important. Doctors rated the spiritual/existential dimension lower than patients. Patient-centred model of medical practice proposed that gives equal weight to all six. Moving towards a positive concept of health. Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ from his 1943 paper ‘A theory of human motivation’ explained. Professor Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, and the concept of flourishing. Seligman’s five components of wellbeing in the PERMA model. Author’s definition of positive health.Less
What is health? What is wellbeing? Various definitions of health explored: a common-sense definition first. The health of middle-aged men and the effectiveness (or otherwise) of health and wellbeing programmes (including smartphone apps) in the workplace. US occupational physician, Dr Ray Fabius’ finding that such programmes work only in workplaces with a culture of health. Definition of health: the WHO’s definition (‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’), rejected as an unworkable tool; and one proposed in The Lancet in 2003 as ‘the ability to adapt’. Radically, this definition sees a patient in the context of their current life; the doctor’s role is to help the patient adapt to their prevailing condition. The social determinants of health. Dr Machteld Huber’s definition in The BMJ: ‘health is the ability to adapt and self-manage’. Her subsequent research and definition of six domains in which health manifested. Patients and nurses gave all six about equal weight, but policymakers rated bodily functions as much more important. Doctors rated the spiritual/existential dimension lower than patients. Patient-centred model of medical practice proposed that gives equal weight to all six. Moving towards a positive concept of health. Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’ from his 1943 paper ‘A theory of human motivation’ explained. Professor Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, and the concept of flourishing. Seligman’s five components of wellbeing in the PERMA model. Author’s definition of positive health.
Alonzo L. Plough (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197559383
- eISBN:
- 9780197559413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0011
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Chapter 9 explores the role of health care institutions in three distinct collaborations designed to reshape the health landscape. Presenting a private-sector perspective, Andrew Renda describes ...
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Chapter 9 explores the role of health care institutions in three distinct collaborations designed to reshape the health landscape. Presenting a private-sector perspective, Andrew Renda describes Humana’s commitment to its Bold Goal population health initiative, which draws on community input to craft interventions that help combat food insecurity, loneliness, and more. Nivedita Mohanty explains how a network of federally qualified health centers is developing tools to help practitioners improve patient care. And in a melding of health and economic interests, Catherine M. Baase details a partnership between a health collaborative and an alliance of business and economic development leaders in central Michigan.Less
Chapter 9 explores the role of health care institutions in three distinct collaborations designed to reshape the health landscape. Presenting a private-sector perspective, Andrew Renda describes Humana’s commitment to its Bold Goal population health initiative, which draws on community input to craft interventions that help combat food insecurity, loneliness, and more. Nivedita Mohanty explains how a network of federally qualified health centers is developing tools to help practitioners improve patient care. And in a melding of health and economic interests, Catherine M. Baase details a partnership between a health collaborative and an alliance of business and economic development leaders in central Michigan.
Alonzo L. Plough (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197559383
- eISBN:
- 9780197559413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0004
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Chapter 3 offers narratives about gun violence; these narratives draw from public health tenets and practice. Contributors sketch a road map to how people with differing philosophies can act together ...
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Chapter 3 offers narratives about gun violence; these narratives draw from public health tenets and practice. Contributors sketch a road map to how people with differing philosophies can act together to prevent gun deaths: Michael B. Siegel describes public health principles that can shape thinking about gun policy. Drawing from his experiences in Baltimore, Daniel W. Webster illustrates how gun violence has influenced urban life, examining the implications of aggressive law enforcement. His work with police and community members and his involvement with a gun violence reduction consortium yield strategies for reducing harm. Zeroing in on the community environments in which gun violence occurs, Bernadette Callahan Hohl illustrates how a public health approach can improve safety. Using examples from community-driven projects, she offers evidence that strengthening neighborhoods pays off. The chapter concludes an action agenda.Less
Chapter 3 offers narratives about gun violence; these narratives draw from public health tenets and practice. Contributors sketch a road map to how people with differing philosophies can act together to prevent gun deaths: Michael B. Siegel describes public health principles that can shape thinking about gun policy. Drawing from his experiences in Baltimore, Daniel W. Webster illustrates how gun violence has influenced urban life, examining the implications of aggressive law enforcement. His work with police and community members and his involvement with a gun violence reduction consortium yield strategies for reducing harm. Zeroing in on the community environments in which gun violence occurs, Bernadette Callahan Hohl illustrates how a public health approach can improve safety. Using examples from community-driven projects, she offers evidence that strengthening neighborhoods pays off. The chapter concludes an action agenda.
Alonzo L. Plough (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197559383
- eISBN:
- 9780197559413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0017
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Chapter 12 probes the interface of climate change and human health with an emphasis on underserved communities. Patrick N. Breysse reviews the health effects of climate change and describes how the ...
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Chapter 12 probes the interface of climate change and human health with an emphasis on underserved communities. Patrick N. Breysse reviews the health effects of climate change and describes how the CDC’s Climate and Health Program helps bolster local, state, tribal, and territorial efforts to protect vulnerable communities. Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright confront the racial inequity of climate change and chemical disasters. Bullard channels the legacy of slavery as he demonstrates how states that enslaved African people now house the communities hit hardest by climate change. Wright describes the unique ways that local communities confront the negative impacts of climate change. And Elizabeth Sawin presents a concept called “multisolving” that addresses climate change solutions that also have health benefits.Less
Chapter 12 probes the interface of climate change and human health with an emphasis on underserved communities. Patrick N. Breysse reviews the health effects of climate change and describes how the CDC’s Climate and Health Program helps bolster local, state, tribal, and territorial efforts to protect vulnerable communities. Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright confront the racial inequity of climate change and chemical disasters. Bullard channels the legacy of slavery as he demonstrates how states that enslaved African people now house the communities hit hardest by climate change. Wright describes the unique ways that local communities confront the negative impacts of climate change. And Elizabeth Sawin presents a concept called “multisolving” that addresses climate change solutions that also have health benefits.
Alonzo L. Plough
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197559383
- eISBN:
- 9780197559413
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197559383.001.0001
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future presents rich research findings, enlivened by stories of lived experience, to reflect on the forces that nurture resilience and ...
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Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future presents rich research findings, enlivened by stories of lived experience, to reflect on the forces that nurture resilience and promote health equity. This volume lifts up the value of innovation and engagement to build the community power essential to making change. In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health series, chapters highlight the importance of resilience, or the capacity of a dynamic system, such as a community, to anticipate and adapt successfully to challenges. Whether stressors are acute (e.g. a storm, an environmental disaster, an abuse of police power) or chronic (e.g. those engendered by poverty and racism), local innovation and community engagement are key to nurturing resilience and promoting health equity. Community Resilience positions storytelling and narrative shifts as essential to influencing our perceptions of who deserves empathy or support, and who does not, by examining the systemic barriers to resilience and the opportunities to reshape the landscape to overcome those barriers. The central message of this volume—across immigration or imprisonment, opioids or trauma, housing or disaster preparedness—is that we must act intentionally to support a shift in power to communities.Less
Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future presents rich research findings, enlivened by stories of lived experience, to reflect on the forces that nurture resilience and promote health equity. This volume lifts up the value of innovation and engagement to build the community power essential to making change. In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health series, chapters highlight the importance of resilience, or the capacity of a dynamic system, such as a community, to anticipate and adapt successfully to challenges. Whether stressors are acute (e.g. a storm, an environmental disaster, an abuse of police power) or chronic (e.g. those engendered by poverty and racism), local innovation and community engagement are key to nurturing resilience and promoting health equity. Community Resilience positions storytelling and narrative shifts as essential to influencing our perceptions of who deserves empathy or support, and who does not, by examining the systemic barriers to resilience and the opportunities to reshape the landscape to overcome those barriers. The central message of this volume—across immigration or imprisonment, opioids or trauma, housing or disaster preparedness—is that we must act intentionally to support a shift in power to communities.
Alonzo L. Plough (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- April 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780197559383
- eISBN:
- 9780197559413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0019
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Public Health
Chapter 13 helps to sort out the public health features of our remarkable new digital world. How will data interface with existing clinical records? Sara Holoubek brings her experience as CEO and ...
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Chapter 13 helps to sort out the public health features of our remarkable new digital world. How will data interface with existing clinical records? Sara Holoubek brings her experience as CEO and founder of Luminary Labs, a strategy and innovation consultancy that works with corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations. Camille Nebeker approaches these issues from an academic perspective, having developed the Research Center for Optimal Digital Ethics (ReCODE) at the University of California, San Diego. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Paul Tarini offers insight from the foundation’s decade-plus commitment to identifying and promoting technology that can advance people’s ability to lead healthy lives. All agree that while there is much to embrace with enthusiasm, there is also reason to proceed with caution. The end of this chapter offers an eye-opening look at the vast scope of data potentially available for analysis.Less
Chapter 13 helps to sort out the public health features of our remarkable new digital world. How will data interface with existing clinical records? Sara Holoubek brings her experience as CEO and founder of Luminary Labs, a strategy and innovation consultancy that works with corporate, nonprofit, and government organizations. Camille Nebeker approaches these issues from an academic perspective, having developed the Research Center for Optimal Digital Ethics (ReCODE) at the University of California, San Diego. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Paul Tarini offers insight from the foundation’s decade-plus commitment to identifying and promoting technology that can advance people’s ability to lead healthy lives. All agree that while there is much to embrace with enthusiasm, there is also reason to proceed with caution. The end of this chapter offers an eye-opening look at the vast scope of data potentially available for analysis.
