Humility as the way forward for population health, and philosophy thereof

2018 ◽  
pp. 181-201
Author(s):  
Sean A. Valles
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Understanding the complexity of population health interventions: assessing intervention system theory (ISyT)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Cambon ◽  
François ALLA
Keyword(s):  
System Theory ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Complex Intervention ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Evaluation Design ◽  
Intervention Evaluation ◽  
Complete Integration ◽  
The Way

Abstract BackgroundA better understanding of what is happening inside the ”black box” of population health interventions is needed because of their inherent complexity. The theory-driven intervention/evaluation paradigm is one approach used for this purpose. However, barriers related to semantic or practical issues stand in the way of its complete integration into evaluation designs.Methods and discussionIn this study, we aimed to clarify how various theories, models, and frameworks could contribute to conceiving a grounded theory, called interventional system theory (ISyT), suitable for understanding the black box of population health interventions and acknowledging their complexity. We suggest that this interventional system theory (ISyT) could guide evaluation processes, whatever evaluation design is applied.ConclusionWe believe that such clarification could contribute to encouraging the use of theories in complex intervention evaluations, and to identifying ways to consider the transferability and the scalability of interventions.

Genomics and Population Health

2013 ◽  
pp. 240-248
Author(s):  
Chan Chee Khoon
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Population Health ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
General State ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

Imagine being able to find out how a drug will affect you before you take it... receiving a medication that is specifically tailored to treat your disease, while minimizing your risk of developing adverse effects. Although a person’s environment, diet, and general state of health can all influence how he or she responds to medicines, another important factor is genes. Pharmacogenetics is the study of how your genes affect the way your body responds to a medicine. Pharmacogenetics helps to determine what the right medicine is for you, based on your own genes.1 The Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base http://www.pharmgkb.org/resources/education/phar-genetics.jsp.

Concluding Remarks

2020 ◽  
pp. 336-338
Author(s):  
Gina S. Lovasi
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Urban Health ◽  
Health Training ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Engagement Strategies ◽  
The Way ◽  
Research Tools

We set out in this text to articulate a range of foundational concepts, research tools and engagement strategies relevant to urban health, all with the intent to provide both knowledge and skills to have an impact on population health in cities across the globe. We hope the four inter-related parts of the book have helped to introduce such a toolkit and enticed you to ponder other questions along the way. To summarize our thinking on this, one might now say that for urban health training, we would expect emerging professionals be ready to:...

On Becoming Food

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Paremoer
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nutritional Guidelines ◽  
The Way

This essay reflects on pregnancy as a process through which women are encouraged to become “good mothers” by “eating well”. It uses nutritional guidelines for pregnant women to explore the way in which pregnant bodies are conceptualised as filtration systems that, through self-discipline, can prevent pollutants in food from reaching the foetus – thereby ensuring foetal health, and ultimately population health. This process risks taming or domesticating the political agency of women under the guise of celebrating them as good mothers.

Afterword

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Laura D. Kubzansky
Keyword(s):  
Population Health ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Current Volume ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Oriented Research ◽  
The Way ◽  
Developing Strategies

While the concept of well-being has long been of interest to scientists and health practitioners, it often fails to capture attention and resources in the way that disease and death do. The vast majority of health-oriented research focuses on identifying and mitigating problems to reduce disease burden rather than identifying and developing strategies to enhance well-being per se. Discussion and research presented in the current volume make the case for shifting the focus to well-being. However, if we truly want to place well-being at the center of efforts to define and understand population health, we will need a robust ...

scholarly journals Legal, Moral and Political Determinants within the Social Determinants of Health: Approaching Transdisciplinary Challenges through Intradisciplinary Reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Coggon
Keyword(s):  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Instrumental Value ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article provides a critical analysis of ‘the legal’ in the legal determinants of health, with reference to the Lancet–O’Neill report on that topic. The analysis shows how law is framed as a fluid and porous concept, with legal measures and instruments being conceived as sociopolitical phenomena. I argue that the way that laws are grounded practically as part of a broader concept of politics and evaluated normatively for their instrumental value has important implications for the study of law itself. This, in turn, has implications for how we approach the transdisciplinary ambitions that form a key part of the report’s recommendations to enhance law’s capacity to promote better, more equitable population health at local, national, international and global levels.

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