Wellbeing
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Introduction
Intersectoral approaches to public health are not working so far...
health is the king; we are spending way too much on health. People are getting quite upset.
quality of life
What is they unifying framework?
gross national happiness
Buddhist notion - sense of satifsaction with a life well-lived
happiness = well-living
wellbeing =/= health; high order outcome
the # of peple reporting they are very happy has not increased since the 1970's.
focus on well-being encourages integration of health, environment, economics, education, etc
close to views of aboriginal people, so can be cross-culturally applied.
we appropriate 30-50% of the biopshere's net primary production (Pauly and Chrisensen, 1995)
23% of all deaths can be attributed to environmental factors (WHO, 2006)
determinants of happiness
- physical, mental, soiritual health
- time use
- communilty vitality
- etc
- etc
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