‘The glue that binds…’: articulating values in multidisciplinary public health

Wills, Jane; Woodhead, David M.

doi:10.1080/09581590310001647498

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“…We need efforts to combine all the SPEC elements at once. This will require multidisciplinary teams with shared values and thorough training in the four continua of the SPEC model [30].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting well-being: Time for a paradigm shift in health and human services

Prilleltensky

2005

Scand J Public Health

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The promotion of personal, relational, and collective well-being has evolved markedly in the last three decades. However positive and needed, recent developments in health promotion require further conceptual clarification and synergistic applications. To assist with conceptual clarification, this article proposes to distinguish among sites, signs, sources, and strategies of well-being. With respect to applications, progress is discussed along four domains: temporal, ecological, participation, and capabilities. The temporal domain refers to the timing of interventions and entails a continuum from reactive to proactive strategies. The ecological domain pertains to the site of interventions, ranging from person-centered to community-centered. The participation domain refers to voice and choice of citizens and consumers in delivery of services and access to resources. At one end of this continuum there is empowerment, while at the opposite end we see disempowerment and detachment. Finally, the capabilities domain refers to the concentration on either strengths or deficits. This article argues that a singular focus on strength, prevention, empowerment, or community conditions is insufficient. It presents a framework for the conceptual integration of these four approaches, while illustrating the benefits of their synergy and the risks of their fragmentation. It is high time for a paradigm shift in health and human services, and this article argues that only a new approach that focuses on strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community conditions can make considerable progress towards the achievement of well-being for all.

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“…We need efforts to combine all the SPEC elements at once. This will require multidisciplinary teams with shared values and thorough training in the four continua of the SPEC model [30].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting well-being: Time for a paradigm shift in health and human services

Prilleltensky

2005

Scand J Public Health

135

115

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“…In 2004, Wills and Woodward described the tension within public health training in the UK as an "implicit rivalry between biomedical and social science disciplines expressed as a conflict between the desire to describe thorough collected data and the desire to achieve change for social justice which privileges methods of involvement and partnership working" (p.11). 31 Institutions also operate within the reality of securing an ongoing funding stream and make decisions to trade off particular content and structure against the requirements of a commercial market. Where there is evidence that a particular type of programme is more likely than another to attract students and funding, there are economic imperatives to make particular choices.…”

Section: Influence Of the Global Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education

Allotey¹,

Diniz

DeJong

et al. 2011

Reproductive Health Matters

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This paper addresses the challenges faced in mainstreaming the teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights into public health education. For this paper, we define sexual and reproductive health and rights education as including not only its biomedical aspects but also an understanding of its history, values and politics, grounded in gender politics and social justice, addressing sexuality, and placed within a broader context of health systems and global health. Using a case study approach with an opportunistically selected sample of schools of public health within our regional contexts, we examine the status of sexual and reproductive health and rights education and some of the drivers and obstacles to the development and delivery of sexual and reproductive health and rights curricula. Despite diverse national and institutional contexts, there are many commonalities. Teaching of sexual and reproductive health and rights is not fully integrated into core curricula. Existing initiatives rely on personal faculty interest or short-term courses, neither of which are truly sustainable or replicable. We call for a multidisciplinary and more comprehensive integration of sexual and reproductive health and rights in public health education. The education of tomorrow's public health leaders is critical, and a strategy is needed to ensure that they understand and are prepared to engage with the range of sexual and reproductive health and rights issues within their historical and political contexts.

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“…In relation to the first tension listed above, few would now argue that public health is not a multi-disciplinary effort (McPherson and Fox 1997;Evans and Knight (eds) 2006) and yet, despite this, public health in the last quarter of the 20th century remained plagued by distinctions between 'medical' and 'non-medical' members of the workforce (Wills and Woodhead 2004). The various moves towards creating a multi-disciplinary public health workforce have encountered a range of difficulties (see further below).…”

Section: Public Health After 1974: the End Of The Beginning Or Beginnmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Definitions of public health abound, varying between times and contexts (Hunter 2003;Hamlin 2002). Lewis (1986) has suggested that for the first three-quarters of the 20th century, public health was characterised by its failure to define a clear and united identity, a trend which Wills and Woodhead (2004) claim has continued into the 21 st century. That said, there are commonalities among the majority of definitions.…”

Section: What Is Public Health?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The various moves towards creating a multi-disciplinary public health workforce have encountered a range of difficulties (see further below). A key part of the problem, claim Wills and Woodhead (2004), is a failure to focus on the shared values that bind such a broad and diverse collection of individuals together, and a resulting absence of collective identity.…”

Section: Public Health After 1974: the End Of The Beginning Or Beginnmentioning

confidence: 99%

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