Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the fields of health promotion, health research, clinical practice, community engagement, and health system policy. Using a social science approach, the contributors explore the interface among culture, community, and well-being in terms of theory and research frameworks; culture, community, and relationships; food; health systems; and collaboration, policy, messaging, and data. The chapters in this collection provide a broader understanding of well-being and its role as a culturally embedded and multidimensional concept. This collection furthers our ability to apprehend social and cultural constructs and dynamics that influence health and well-being and to better understand factors that contribute to or prevent health disparities.
Janet M. Page-Reeves is associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the director of research for the Office for Community Health at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center.
Chapter 1: Socially Determined? Frameworks for Thinking About Health Equity and Wellness Chapter 2: Employing a Cultural Lens to Health Promotion Interventions to Enhance Health Equity Chapter 3: Community Wellbeing, Community Intervention, and Community Development: Changing Community Ecology Chapter 4: Culture and Practice in Relational Wellbeing Chapter 5: The Allure of Community: The Ethical Journey of People Living with HIV Disease in Philadelphia Chapter 6: "Free Our People": A Disability Studies Perspective on Wellbeing Chapter 7: Finding the "Culture" in Acculturation: Cultural Consonance and Health among Mexican Immigrant Women in Alabama Chapter 8: Health and Wellbeing among Native American Indigenous Peoples Chapter 9: "Speak your mind and heart in the Indian way": Wellness and Agency among American Indian Elders Chapter 10:Starved for Company: Rural Seniors, Social Isolation, Food Charity, and Impact on Community Wellbeing Chapter 11: Technological Approaches to Food-Related Health Equity Chapter 12: Food Sovereignty and Wellness in Urban African American Communities Chapter 13: From Cultural to Structural Competency: The Evolving Roles of Healthcare Providers and Medical Education Training to Address Persistent Disparities Chapter 14: Evolving from a Disease-Focused to a Health-Focused Healthcare System: from Pathogenesis to Salutogenesis Chapter 15: The Limits of Resiliency: Rethinking Wellness in a Family Medicine Residency Program Chapter 16: Milagro: An Innovative Program for Pregnant Women with Substance Use Disorders Chapter 17: Aligning Research with Action for Health and Wellbeing in the Columbia Gorge: The Community Health Advocacy and Research Alliance (CHARA) Chapter 18: Shifting Narratives for Behavioral Health Justice: The #NMspeaksCrisis Campaign Chapter 19: A Place-Based Approach to Assessing Wellness: The New Mexico Community Data Collaborative
"This book peels away the gloss and hype about 'wellness' to give an unvarnished view of the topic from the front lines, delivered with poignancy from those working in the trenches with the most vulnerable among us. Here, the importance of culture and community ring out as different chapter authors reveal perspectives of those who are disabled, infected, addicted, or lonely. Here, you'll find the perspective of African-Americans reviving traditional food choices, of indigenous people grappling with historical trauma, of women beset by addiction struggling to keep their children while dealing with intergenerational trauma, and even resident physicians suffering abuse in a stressed, often toxic environment." -- Art Kaufman, University of New Mexico
