Towards a Common Understanding of the Health Sciences

Stucki, Gerold; Rubinelli, Sara; Reinhardt, Jan D.; Bickenbach, Jerome

doi:10.1055/s-0042-108442

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“…Other meso-level interventions may involve efforts to persuade disability insurances about the cost-effectiveness of JM approaches in VR counseling (Frank, 2016). Finally, interventions on a macro level may target national disability policies to create the prerequisites needed to provide suitable job opportunities for PwD on the labor market (Stucki, Rubinelli, Reinhardt, & Bickenbach, 2016) as well as accessible VR services (Frank & Sawney, 2003).…”

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Job matching: An interdisciplinary scoping study with implications for vocational rehabilitation counseling.

Nützi¹,

Trezzini²,

Medici³

et al. 2017

Rehabilitation Psychology

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Section: Implications For Vr Counselingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Job matching: An interdisciplinary scoping study with implications for vocational rehabilitation counseling.

Nützi¹,

Trezzini²,

Medici³

et al. 2017

Rehabilitation Psychology

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“…It is not an understatement to say that health research has expanded astoundingly over the last century, thanks to the contributions of numerous scientific disciplines, from the biological and natural sciences to social sciences, humanities, and engineering (74). The field of health sciences faces a challenge in encompassing and integrating diverse scientific disciplines to comprehensively understand and respond to individual and population-level health needs within a single field of study.…”

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The human functioning revolution: implications for health systems and sciences

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The World Health Organization (WHO) concept of human functioning represents a new way of thinking about health that has wide-ranging consequences. This article explicates this paradigm shift, illustrates its potential impact, and argues that societies can profit by implementing functioning as the third indicator of health, complementing morbidity and mortality. Human functioning integrates biological health (the bodily functions and structures that constitute a person’s intrinsic health capacity) and lived health (a person’s actual performance of activities in interaction with their environment). It is key to valuing health both in relation to individual well-being and societal welfare—operationalizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 principle that health is a public good. Implementing functioning as defined and conceptualized in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) could profoundly benefit practices, research, education, and policy across health systems and health strategies and help integrate health and social systems. It also offers a foundation for reconceptualizing multidisciplinary health sciences and for augmenting epidemiology with information derived from peoples’ lived experiences of health. A new interdisciplinary science field—human functioning sciences—itself holds the promise to integrate research inputs and methods from diverse biomedical and social disciplines to provide a more comprehensive understanding of human health. To realize these opportunities, we must address formidable methodological, implementation, and communication challenges throughout health systems and broader society. This endeavor is vital to orientate health systems toward what matters most to people about health, to unlock the societal economic investment in health that is essential for individual and population-level well-being, and to drive progress toward achieving the SDGs.

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“…The health sciences research field aims to develop knowledge to maintain and improve health at the individual and population levels (Stucki et al. , 2016).…”

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“…The health sciences research field aims to develop knowledge to maintain and improve health at the individual and population levels (Stucki et al, 2016). Health sciences research focusses on the prevalence of and motives behind illness, the usefulness and efficiency of techniques and treatment effectiveness (Polgar and Thomas, 2019).…”

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Healthcare digitalisation and its association with quality and employee health, a mixed-methods study

Qvarfordt,

Lagrosen

2023

IJWHM

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PurposePrevious research has identified associations between quality management and employee health. This study's purpose was to (1) examine those associations in a public healthcare organisation and (2) explore and describe the association between digitalisation and employee health.Design/methodology/approachAn online questionnaire including indices to measure quality management values, employee health and digitalisation was answered by 118 managers in Swedish public healthcare. Correlation analysis was used to analyse the data. Based on the survey results, 12 qualitative, in-depth interviews were conducted with healthcare managers.FindingsThe findings show that employee health is associated with quality management and digitalisation. Categories were defined to describe the managers' views of the relationship between digitalisation and health.Research limitations/implicationsCausality was not explicitly tested and cannot be assumed. However, the results strengthen the body of research showing that quality management is related to employee health, and associations between health and digitalisation were identified.Practical implicationsThe findings and model should be helpful for healthcare managers in a digitalising environment who aim to preserve or enhance employee health whilst ensuring high service quality.Originality/valueThe results were used to create an integrated conceptual model depicting the association between quality, digitalisation and health. This association has not previously been studied.

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Towards a Common Understanding of the Health Sciences

Abstract: This conceptualization of health sciences is offered to contextualize the work of health researchers, thereby fostering interdisciplinarity.

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Job matching: An interdisciplinary scoping study with implications for vocational rehabilitation counseling.

Job matching: An interdisciplinary scoping study with implications for vocational rehabilitation counseling.

The human functioning revolution: implications for health systems and sciences

Healthcare digitalisation and its association with quality and employee health, a mixed-methods study

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