Economic and Social Factors Affecting Health and Well-Being

2016 ◽  
pp. 123-133
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Health And Well Being

Protective and risk socio-economic – environmental factors affecting mental health

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S572-S572
Author(s):  
M.I. Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Services ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Socio Economic Factors

Over all generic, biological, environmental and socio-economic factors are attributing towards mental health and well being of a person. But among these socio-economic – environmental factors play a great role. It is very important to understand socio-economic – environmental protective and adverse factors affecting mental health. There is very dynamic interaction between individual attributes like socio-economic circumstances and environmental factors. The dynamic interactions of all these three factors determine the final outcome and status of mental health social well being. So, for our professionals particularly and community in general, it is very important to have full knowledge about all these factors. Because lack of managing and integrating of socio-economic-environmental factors, we will not be able to deliver quality psychiatric/psychological services. Community at large will also be ignorant of it and will not be able to play their roles towards healthy mental health formation. Moreover, these socio-economic – environmental factors are within our reach and can be modified.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Human biology and the urban environment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip James
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Calorie Intake ◽  
Stress Hormone ◽  
Disease Patterns ◽  
Cellular Inflammation ◽  
Health And Well Being

Climate change and the rapid movement of people and goods over great distances are changing global disease patterns. Human health and well-being are also being adversely affected by the absence of biodiverse, vegetation-rich green spaces. The human body adapts poorly to urban life. The result is ill health. A typology of interactions (intentional, incidental, and indirect) between people and nature is set out. Similarly, benefits of contact with nature in terms of physiological, psychological, cognitive, and social factors. The emergent central mechanism linking urban environments to ill health is studied. Urban environments cause chronic, low level stress resulting in the release of cortisone (a stress hormone), decreased physical activity, and increased calorie intake, all of which lead to chronic cellular inflammation and to the life-style diseases of the twenty-first century: depression, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia.

scholarly journals The Implication of Wearables and the Factors Affecting Their Usage among Recreationally Active People

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (22) ◽  
pp. 8532
Author(s):  
Anna Hendker ◽  
Malte Jetzke ◽  
Eric Eils ◽  
Claudia Voelcker-Rehage
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Similar Amount ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Usage Behavior ◽  
Day Of The Week ◽  
Fitness Tracker ◽  
Consumer Devices ◽  
Health And Well Being

Regular physical activity (PA) is associated with health and well-being. Recent findings show that PA tracking using technological devices can enhance PA behavior. Consumer devices can track many different parameters affecting PA (e.g., number of steps, distance, and heart rate). However, it remains unclear what factors affect the usage of such devices. In this study, we evaluated whether there was a change in usage behavior across the first weeks of usage. Further we investigated whether external factors such as weather and day of the week influence usage behavior. Thirty nine participants received a Fitbit Charge 2 fitness tracker for a nine-week period. All participants were asked to wear the device according to their wishes. The usage time and amount of PA were assessed, and the influencing factors, such as weather conditions and day of the week, were analyzed. The results showed that usage behavior differed largely between individuals and decreased after five weeks of usage. Moreover, the steps per worn hour did not change significantly, indicating a similar amount of activity across the nine-week period when wearing the device. Further influencing factors were the day of the week (the tracker was used less on Sundays) and the temperature (usage time was lower with temperatures >25°). Tracking peoples’ activity might have the potential to evaluate different interventions to increase PA.

scholarly journals Implementation factors affecting the large-scale deployment of digital health and well-being technologies: A qualitative study of the initial phases of the ‘Living-It-Up’ programme

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 867-877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Agbakoba ◽  
Marilyn McGee-Lennon ◽  
Matt-Mouley Bouamrane ◽  
Nicholas Watson ◽  
Frances S Mair
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Normalisation Process Theory ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Health And Well Being

Little is known about the factors which facilitate or impede the large-scale deployment of health and well-being consumer technologies. The Living-It-Up project is a large-scale digital intervention led by NHS 24, aiming to transform health and well-being services delivery throughout Scotland. We conducted a qualitative study of the factors affecting the implementation and deployment of the Living-It-Up services. We collected a range of data during the initial phase of deployment, including semi-structured interviews (N = 6); participant observation sessions (N = 5) and meetings with key stakeholders (N = 3). We used the Normalisation Process Theory as an explanatory framework to interpret the social processes at play during the initial phases of deployment. Initial findings illustrate that it is clear − and perhaps not surprising − that the size and diversity of the Living-It-Up consortium made implementation processes more complex within a ‘multi-stakeholder’ environment. To overcome these barriers, there is a need to clearly define roles, tasks and responsibilities among the consortium partners. Furthermore, varying levels of expectations and requirements, as well as diverse cultures and ways of working, must be effectively managed. Factors which facilitated implementation included extensive stakeholder engagement, such as co-design activities, which can contribute to an increased ‘buy-in’ from users in the long term. An important lesson from the Living-It-Up initiative is that attempting to co-design innovative digital services, but at the same time, recruiting large numbers of users is likely to generate conflicting implementation priorities which hinder − or at least substantially slow down − the effective rollout of services at scale. The deployment of Living-It-Up services is ongoing, but our results to date suggest that − in order to be successful − the roll-out of digital health and well-being technologies at scale requires a delicate and pragmatic trade-off between co-design activities, the development of innovative services and the efforts allocated to widespread marketing and recruitment initiatives.

scholarly journals Social Factors and Health: Description of a new Norwegian twin study

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Kutschke
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Twin Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Twin Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mz Twins ◽  
Health And Well Being

A compelling literature substantiates that our social worlds have significant and far-reaching effects on<br />health and well-being throughout life. Yet, few studies of social factors and their effects on health have been<br />embedded within the twin design. Towards this end, we have initiated a new twin study on social factors and<br />health which will investigate the genetic and environmental influences on social environments, and explore<br />how social environments mediate these influences on physical and mental health. Herein, we describe the<br />study sample, response rates and measures. Twins born 1935-1960 were invited to complete a questionnaire<br />and these data were supplemented with information on cardiovascular disease and cancer through linkage to<br />national health registries. Among the 10655 twins who were contacted, responses were received from 5446<br />individuals (1989 pairs and 1468 single responders). The subsample of pairs where both twins responded includes<br />1004 identical (MZ) pairs and 985 fraternal (DZ) pairs. The overall individual and pairwise response<br />rates were 51% and 37%, respectively. The average age is 61.54 years, 56.1% of the responders are female<br />and 46.1% are identical twins. MZ twins were more likely to participate than DZ twins. Sex and age effects<br />were statistically significant for many of the psychosocial measures and for measures of support and strain<br />in the social network. There were no differences in the social networks between twins in pairs where both<br />twins responded and twins in pairs where only one twin responded.

scholarly journals Perceived Environmental, Individual and Social Factors of Long-Distance Collective Walking in Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Yang ◽  
Shanshan Dai ◽  
Honggang Xu ◽  
Peng Ju
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Positive Social Interaction ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Health And Well Being

Long-distance collective walking is a popular activity in cities across China. However, related research is limited, creating a research gap to explore participants’ dynamic experience and related influential factors. Therapeutic mobilities theory explores the relationships among walking, health, and well-being from a qualitative perspective. Based on therapeutic mobilities theory, following a systematic process, this study develops a scale to quantitatively estimate the perceived environmental, personal, and social factors that may influence health and well-being. By applying construal level theory, this paper further hypothesizes that personality traits and familiarity moderate environmental, personal, and social perceptions. Data were collected with a paper survey (n = 926) from the “Shenzhen 100 km Walking” event. The findings highlight that long-distance collective walkers have comparatively greater experiences of health and well-being in three aspects: positive social interaction, individual development, and environmental understanding. Personality traits, familiarity, and gender moderate this well-being experience. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

Social Epidemiology and the Work Environment

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Leonard Syme
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Epidemiology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Intervention Programs ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health And Well Being

A major theme in virtually all of Bertil Gardell's work is that the social and work environment affects health and well-being. This concern with the social environment has been a major influence in the development of a new area of research referred to as social epidemiology. In this area of work, difficulties are increasingly being recognized in identifying specific social factors in the environment toward which intervention programs can be directed. An approach to this complex problem is to focus attention on the “mini-environment” of the workplace. Research here has yielded several interesting hypotheses that may have important implications for studies of the larger environment. These hypotheses involve the concepts of control and participation, concepts that are central to all of Garden's work.

scholarly journals Exploring Factors That Could Potentially Have Affected the First 1000 Days of Absent Learners in South Africa: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2768
Author(s):  
Carien van Zyl ◽  
Carlien van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Abuse During Pregnancy ◽  
Health And Well Being

Background: The first 1000 days of life—from conception to the second birthday of children —is widely recognized as the most crucial development phase, which could have long lasting effects on the health and well-being of children throughout their lives. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to qualitatively explore and describe factors that could potentially have affected the first 1000 days of absent learners in the Foundation Phase within the Paarl-East community in the Western Cape of South Africa. Methods: The data for this qualitative descriptive study were collected through semi-structured interviews with 18 biological mothers of absent learners in the Foundation Phase, who resided in Paarl East. The transcribed texts were analyzed by making use of a thematic data analysis. Results: The findings revealed six predominant themes that played a role during the first 1000 days of the lives of these absent learners. Conclusion: It was concluded from the findings in this study that factors, such as health and nutrition of both the mothers and their children, substance use/abuse during pregnancy, toxic stress, support received by the mothers and their children, attachment, attentive care, and stimulation and play, could have affected the first 1000 days of the absent learners in this study. Since this study did not aim to confirm a correlation between the first 1000 days and absenteeism, but solely to explore factors affecting the first 1000 days, conclusions regarding cause and effect was not possible.

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