This volume provides a background to debates on definitional terms of subjective and objective wellbeing. Beyond that, it analyses discourse and policy practice relating to population-level and individual health and wellbeing promotion. The chapters in this volume illustrate salient aspects relating to health and wellbeing: how the post-pandemic world seems to be at a tipping point in terms of worsening outcomes for the social determinants of health and wellbeing, how health and wellbeing approaches in the educational sector can be seen as rhetoric devices to promote reform but also as a meaningful way to promote student flourishing; how holistic approaches to health and wellbeing, namely embedding arts and culture in a healthcare setting, can support enhanced wellbeing of frontline healthcare staff; and how specific health and wellbeing issues relating to women and their integration into the workforce remain fraught with difficulty. Finally, the volume analyses efforts to improve health and wellbeing in the face of political turmoil. This highly interdisciplinary volume includes contributions from senior academics and early career researchers in political science, social science, area studies and economics and is an important contribution to the SDG and broader literature on policies related to health and wellbeing.
INTRODUCTION.- The COVID 19 Pandemic as Tipping Point: Analysis and
Prognosis for La Longue Durée.- From Health to Health and Well being': A
Study of the Emerging Discourse of Well being in Indian Education Policy.-
The Case for Caring Compassionately for the Well-being of Others in the
University.- Implementing Approaches to Improve the Well being of First Year
Students at the University of the Witwatersrand During the COVID 19 Lockdown:
From Access to Success.- Designing Healthier Cities: A Pilot Program in the
Architectural Design Studio.- Embedding the Arts into Healthcare Settings:
Create+ An Arts Referral Program for NHS Staff.- Womens Well-being in the
Workplace Across the Lifespan: Comparative Perspectives on Menopause
Workplace Policy and Practices in the United Kingdom, France, and the United
States.- Cross-Border Workers Well-being on the Island of Ireland: a Blind
Spot of Cross-border Cooperation?.
Louise Dalingwater has published 10 edited or co-edited volumes and is currently co-editing two other special issues. She is chief editor of the International Journal of Health, Wellness and Society, a peer-reviewed journal indexed in Scopus. She is the principal investigator on a COST project consisting of a Consortium of 20 international researchers across Europe and Asia. This can guarantee a significant outreach for international contributions on the subject of health and wellbeing.
Arnaud Page is Associate Professor in British History at Sorbonne University. His research sits at the intersection of environmental history, food history and the history of medicine. His work has notably been published in Technology and Culture, Environment and History and History of Science. He is currently finalizing a monograph on the history of plant, animal and human nutrition science in Britain and the British Empire (1840-1914).
Liana Winett is Associate Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University-Portland State University School of Public Health (USA). She explores how communities and societies discuss the complex and controversial problems that affect the publics health, and how framing of these problems can help support broad public participation in these important debates. She has explored, among other topics, issue framing of U.S. federal school foods policy; child healthy weight; early childhood care and education; interpersonal violence; the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD); cancer; the U.S. public health response to bioterrorism; COVID-19; and most recently policy discourse around menstruation and menopause. Dr. Winett teaches courses in media advocacy, risk and crisis communication, and mass media strategy.
