Screen LibrarySocial scaffolding : applying the lessons of contemporary social science to health and healthcare /
Using current societal dilemmas, this book explores how social factors and social identity influence our health and recovery from illness. It includes recent research to present practitioners, researchers, policymakers and students of many disciplines with the material to support them in better harn...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2019. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Medicine
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| Summary: |
Using current societal dilemmas, this book explores how social factors and social identity influence our health and recovery from illness. It includes recent research to present practitioners, researchers, policymakers and students of many disciplines with the material to support them in better harnessing current knowledge of the impact of social factors on health. The contents will influence collaborative working across policy, disciplinary and practice boundaries to design and deliver healthcare services. The book identifies the importance of social connectedness, social support, agency and self and group efficacy in people's health, longevity and resilience after adversity. Core perspectives include the social identity approach and a values framework for taking public health ethics into decision-making, both of which emphasise valuing people and co-productive relationships. Advocating better targeted mental health promotion and integrated interventions, this book strongly argues for a greater emphasis on social factors in evidence-based and cost-effective practice. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781911623045 1911623044 |
| Index Number: | RA418 |
| CLC: | R1-05 |
| Call Number: | R1-05/S678-2 |
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Health and society : contributions to improving healthcare from the social sciences / Six features of the human condition : the social causation and social construction of mental health / Social sciences and health : a framework for building and strengthening social connectedness / The social identity approach to health / The relevance of social science to improving health and healthcare / The social determinants of mental health / Laidback science : messages from horizontal epidemiology / Parity of esteem for mental health / Belonging / Families and communities : their meanings and roles across ethnic cultures / The nature of resilience : coping with adversity / The value of tolerance and the tolerability of competing values / Towards partnerships in health and social care : a coloquium of approaches to connectedness / Commentaries on core themes in section 3 / Crowds and cooperation / Emergencies, disasters and risk reduction : a microcosm of social relationships in communities / Shared social identity in emergencies, disasters and conflicts / Complex trauma and complex responses to trauma in the asylum context / The mental health of veterans : ticking time bomb or business as usual? / Violent radicalisation : relational roots and preventive implications / Ways out of intractable conflict / Agency as a source of recovery and creativity / Making connectedness count : from theory to practising a social identity model of health / Public health values and evidence-based practice / Social scaffolding : supporting the development of positive social identities and agency in communities / Synthesising social science into healthcare / Relationships, groups, teams and long-termism / Caring for the carers / The importance of creating and harnessing a sense of 'us' : social identity as the missing link between leadership and health / Smithtown as society / Suit the action to the word, the word to the action / |