Enabling well-being in a time of radical change: Integrative public health for the 21st century.
Public Health
; 124(6): 305-12, 2010 Jun.
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| ID: mdl-20434738
ABSTRACT
We live in a rapidly changing world; one where existing models for and approaches to health appear to deliver diminishing returns, whilst new public health challenges emerge. This paper outlines an integrative approach to such challenges. Integral theory suggests that key dimensions of human experience, frequently presented in opposition to each other (e.g. subjective-objective; individual-collective), need to be understood as integral to the whole. This is relevant to the public health community because powerful forces within neglected dimensions can undermine or destroy our efforts in other dimensions. This is illustrated in this paper by focusing on the issue of well-being, which illustrates the interconnected ways in which people in affluent societies can suffer from particular problems arising in such society and contribute to broader, global problems. The integral framework is used to show how a more integrative approach to such challenges can transcend some neglected blind-spots within public health. It is argued that public health leaders and practitioners need to apply integrative forms of thinking to their own practice in order to respond more effectively to the complexity of contemporary public health problems.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Medicina Social
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Saúde Pública
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Promoção da Saúde
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Public Health
Ano de publicação:
2010
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Article