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Self-love
Published in Stephen Buetow, From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care, 2023
The previous chapter suggested how a person-centred health care approach to loneliness looks beyond developing social connectedness. It creates conditions conducive to developing the virtues that give scope to persons creating positive meaning from time alone and framing it as healthy solitude. This chapter elaborates on the most central of these virtues, self-love as an art 1 that intersects with other stable traits of good character. Facilitating love, coping and flourishing, these traits include courage, compassion, generosity and dignity-conserving gratitude for life’s blessings. The chapter focuses on self-love because what persons do from self-love does not come from constraint or duty. Moreover, self-love is a virtue without enough of which persons cannot desire solitude. They believe they are in “bad company when they spend time alone”2 or their own company is insufficient to avoid loneliness.
Smart health communities
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
Fowie Ng, David Briggs, Yaping Liu
In the context of M2M or ‘machine to machine communications’ becomes increasingly central to the technology. The language describes technology that uses networked technologies to exchange information. The approach refers to intelligent transportation, cyber-physical systems (CPS) and smart structures such as buildings, phones, vehicles, etc. The emphasis is on sensor networking and connected sensors. The technologies are increasingly miniaturised and portable. All of these developments increase accessibility but at the same time increase vulnerabilities around both security and privacy (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security ENISA, 2017). It is also suggested that success in this area may depend on a citizen’s willingness to pay for mobile health technologies especially where the services are preventative rather than curative (Bettiga et al., 2019). Research also suggests that the degree of social connectedness is relevant to health status and to the level of engagement in preventative services (Stafford et al., 2018).
The Role of Neighbourhood Social and Built Environments on Social Interactions and Community Wellbeing Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
Published in Abbas Rajabifard, Greg Foliente, Daniel Paez, COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, 2021
As soon as the World Health Organisation (WHO) [11] announced that COVID-19 is a public health emergency of international concern, in response, many countries imposed restrictions such as social distancing, isolation and stay-at-home requirements. These types of restrictions may lead to loneliness and boredom [12]. Social isolation is opposite to social connectedness and has found to be related to psychological distress, such as anxiety [6, 13], depression, stress [6, 13] and loneliness [13]. Indeed, quarantine during the SARS outbreak in 2003 ([14], as cited in [13]) and the swine flu outbreak in 2009 ([15], as cited in [13]) was associated with increased depression and anxiety. Tull et al. [13] studied stay-at home restrictions and daily changed routines due to COVID-19 pandemic with mental health outcomes (n=500) in the United States. They concluded that the restrictions were associated with health related anxiety, financial worry and loneliness. Smith et al. [6] investigated the relationship between social isolation and mental health outcomes during COVID-19 pandemic (n=278) in the Unites States. They found statistical relationships between the two and concluded that higher psychological flexibility and ability to accept difficult experiences helped to reduce the negative effects of social isolation [6].
Disparities in Resource Availability, Psychological Intimate Partner Violence, and Depression Among Hispanic Women
Published in Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2023
Maria Jose Baeza, Rosina Cianelli, Giovanna De Oliveira, Natalia Villegas, Joseph P. De Santis, Evelyn Iriarte, Nilda Peragallo Montano
This study is grounded in the Vulnerable Population Conceptual Model (VPCM), which integrates availability of resources, relative risk, and influence of health status on the disease process (Flaskerud & Winslow, 1998). Resource availability refers to socioeconomic and environmental resources available to the population. These resources are divided into four main categories: a) Human capital, including income, education, employment, and housing; b) Social connectedness, including integration of community members, marginalization, stigmatization, and discrimination; c) Social status, including decision-making power and the ability to use power to gain health, avoid risk factors, and minimize the consequences of diseases; and 4) Environmental resources, including availability and accessibility of adequate healthcare. Relative risk refers to exposure to risk factors. Finally, health status refers to age- and gender-specific morbidity and mortality (Flaskerud & Winslow, 1998).
Contested occupation in place: Experiences of inclusion and exclusion in seniors’ housing
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2023
Carri Hand, Kristin Prentice, Colleen McGrath, Debbie Laliberte Rudman, Catherine Donnelly
The data for our analysis of occupation in place come from a participatory action research (PAR) project about building social connectedness in a seniors’ apartment building. We, that is, the authors of this paper, sought to identify older adult residents of an apartment building with whom we could collaborate on a project aimed at fostering social connectedness using a PAR approach. We identified several seniors-only apartment buildings in our local area and reached out to make a connection with the manager of the present seniors’ apartment building. We met with residents to determine their interest in collaborating on this project and specifically whether they had an interest in fostering social connectedness in their building. Afterwards they privately discussed the offer and accepted. In alignment with key PAR principles (Benjamin-Thomas et al., 2018), in the broader project we worked to collaborate with residents to identify issues related to social connectedness, enhance understanding of the factors shaping such issues, and generate action strategies based on the knowledge generated. We collaboratively applied several strategies to enhance social connectedness; the broader PAR work, however, is not the focus of the current paper. Within this paper, we provide an overview of this PAR project to situate the current paper (further information regarding the broader PAR project has been published elsewhere; Hand et al., 2019). The current paper is researcher-led, and we focus on knowledge generated during the broader PAR project pertaining to occupation in place and contested occupation.
The REBOOT Combat Recovery Program: Health and Socioemotional Benefits
Published in Military Behavioral Health, 2022
Leanne K. Knobloch, Jenny L. Owens, Robyn L. Gobin, Timothy J. Wolf
Anger is an emotion stemming from a sense of injustice that can arise from blocked goals or threats to well-being (e.g., Potegal & Stemmler, 2010). Meaning and purpose in life is people’s capacity to understand their life experiences and to pursue worthwhile goals (e.g., Steger, 2017). Social connectedness is a sense of belongingness and closeness to others (e.g., Lee et al., 2008). Forgiveness is a process of reducing negative feelings toward the source of a transgression (e.g., McCullough et al., 2001). Socioemotional problems can linger long after military personnel have left the warzone (Bryan et al., 2016; Currier, Drescher, et al., 2014; Griffin et al., 2021; Griffith, 2019; Sullivan & Starnino, 2019). Even more sobering, work shows that unresolved anger (Wilks et al., 2019), a lack of meaning and purpose in life (Smigelsky et al., 2020), social isolation (Silva et al., 2017; Teo et al., 2018), and unforgiveness (Bryan et al., 2015) correspond with suicide ideation and suicide attempts among military personnel.