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Inventory Resources and Risks for Recovery
Published in Sandra Rasmussen, Developing Competencies for Recovery, 2023
Social environment includes friends and family, community, society, and culture. Home and community are two of the four recovery dimensions advanced by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), underscoring the importance of the social environment.
Providers, negotiators, and mediators: women as the hidden carers
Published in Ellen Lewin, Virginia Olesen, Women, Health, and Healing, 2022
As the providers of health, women are responsible for securing the domestic conditions necessary for the maintenance of health and for recovery from sickness. Women's health work involves the provision of a materially-secure environment: a warm, clean home where both young and old can be protected against danger and disease, and a diet sufficient in quantity and quality to meet their nutritional needs. It involves, too, the provision of a social environment conducive to normal health and development. It is a woman's job to orchestrate social relations within the home, and to minimize the healthdamaging insecurities and anxieties which can arise when these relations go awry. The second dimension of the informal health service, the negotiation of health, springs from the first. In laboring for their families’ health, women are also teaching it. In setting standards of diet and discipline, women not only facilitate health in a biological sense; they transmit a culture in which health and illness can be understood. Women's health work is not exclusively private, restricted to the confines of family and community. Women also serve as mediators of outside services. Their responsibilities within the domestic health service unavoidably bring them into contact with professional welfare workers: the doctor and health visitor, the social worker and the district nurse. Their caring role places them at the interface between the family and the state, as the gobetweens linking the informal health-care system with the formal apparatus of the welfare state.
Health and urban living
Published in Ben Y.F. Fong, Martin C.S. Wong, The Routledge Handbook of Public Health and the Community, 2021
The built and social environment is a powerful determinant of health. The buildings and surroundings (and the air quality) where we live, work, commute and play influence many factors related to public health, including obesity, respiratory disease, physical activity and mental health (Koehler et al., 2018). Urban planning and design policies must take health effects into account. To enhance health and sustainability, cities can pursue urban designs that encourages walking, cycling, exercise, nutritious food choices and a shift from private vehicles towards public transport. Creating neighbourhood business within walking distances of homes, and having more green space (parks) and blue space (water) for people to enjoy are practical ways to achieve these goals (Choi et al., 2005; Sallis et al., 2016). The importance of green space usage to promote health and wellbeing in urban settings has been affirmed by studies focusing on associations between urban green, health and wellbeing (Krefis et al., 2018). In addition, healthier and more energy efficient building designs help to both combat sick building syndrome and reduce carbon emissions (Kolczak, 2017).
Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions for Suicide: the Right Idea at the Right Time
Published in Psychiatry, 2022
James C. West, Adam Walsh, Joshua C. Morganstein
Because suicide is a traumatic event that unfolds over time, a public health framework is useful to consider the application of just-in-time interventions proposed by Coppersmith and colleagues. We propose the application of a modified Haddon Matrix to conceptualize suicide risk factors. The Haddon Matrix (Haddon, 1980) is a conceptual framework used to identify public health targets of change in the context of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies. The matrix was originally developed as a risk management tool for identifying factors that influence the outcome of traffic accidents. Within the Haddon Matrix, the rows correspond to the temporal phases of an adverse public health event, specifically the pre-event, event, and post-event time points. In the case of suicide, we separate post-event factors between survivors and those who die by suicide. The columns correspond to the public health-related factors that influence the outcome of the event, defined as host, agent, physical environment, and social environment. In the application of the modified matrix in suicide, host represents characteristics of the person at risk of suicide. Agent refers to factors that contribute to the cause and severity of the event, in this case, the method of suicide. Physical environment captures attributes of the setting where the event takes place. Social environment describes the cultural, social, political, and legal norms of the community. Table 1 illustrates our application of the Haddon Matrix to the public health targets of change relevant to suicide.
Capturing the financial hardship of cancer in military adolescent and young adult patients: A conceptual framework
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Christabel K. Cheung, Patricia W. Nishimoto, Thuli Katerere-Virima, Laura E. Helbling, Bria N. Thomas, Reginald Tucker-Seeley
A conceptual model of financial hardship was recently introduced to better capture the diverse psychosocial and behavioral financial circumstances of cancer patients not reflected in often-used socioeconomic status measures.3,24,25 The model depicts the relationship between three domains of the financial hardship experience: material, behavioral and psychosocial, and their collective impact on health outcomes in cancer patients.3,24–26 When discussing individuals’ healthcare outcomes, Urie Bronfenbrenner’s27 social ecological model provides a perspective that explains the reciprocal influences of the social environment.28 Yabroff and colleagues29 utilized the social ecological model to highlight the multiple hierarchical levels that influence the financial hardship of cancer survivors, such as employers, healthcare providers, healthcare systems, and state and national policies. We applied the conceptual model introduced by Tucker-Seeley and colleagues,3,24,25 and Bronfenbrenner’s theorizations of social ecology30 to examine the financial hardship experiences of active-duty military adolescent and young adult patients following a cancer diagnosis.
Pre- and post-immigration factors associated with cigarette use among young adult recent Latinx immigrants during their initial year in the U.S
Published in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2022
Mariana Sanchez, Eduardo Romano, Weize Wang, Alexa Barton, Bina Ali, Karina Villalba, Ashly Westick
Notwithstanding, our study findings suggest an opportunity to further examine leveraging social support systems in curbing behaviors among young adult RLIs in the post-immigration context, for social networks are known to not only influence smoking initiation but also cessation (32). In line with the concept of contagion effect in the theory of diffusion of innovation (35), social networks may influence individuals to embrace attitudes and behaviors that are prevalent in their networks. In this capacity, social networks could represent exposure to a social environment in which people observe new health promoting behavior and model after that behavior. Social support may buffer the impact of stress on health or maladaptive health behavior (36). Also, social support may be directly protective against maladaptive coping behaviors such as cigarette smoking (37,38).