Well-being as a Multidimensional Concept: Understanding Connections Among Culture, Community, and Health
A new book featuring TREE Members and Affiliates, edited by IDC Member Janet Page-Reeves.
This new collection, edited by TREE Center Investigator Development Core member, Janet Page-Reeves, contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. The book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations. There are 19 chapters plus an introduction, and nearly 40 authors. This collection is multi-disciplinary and has sections on theory & frameworks, social relationships and culture, food, health systems, and data, policy & collaboration. The chapters are innovative in their concepts and findings, providing insights and new approaches for health intervention researchers, community health practitioners, health policy analysts, medical anthropologists, and others interested in a more nuanced, culturally and contextually situated understanding of the concept of well-being. As an edited collection, this book emphasizes and recognizes the quotidian ways that wellness is enacted and wellbeing is promoted in different cultural and contextual settings—that there are assets out there that are not appreciated or recognized. The following chapters feature TREE Center members and affiliates:
Introduction
Janet Page-Reeves and Kara L. McKinney
“Speak your mind and heart in the Indian way”: Wellness and Agency among American Indian Elders
Elise Trott Jaramillo, Cathleen E. Willging,
Emily Haozous, Steven P. Verney, & Erik Lujan
Starved for Company: Rural Seniors, Social Isolation, Food Charity, and Impact on Community Well-being
Alicia Edwards & Janet Page-Reeves
From Cultural to Structural Competency: The Evolving Roles of Healthcare Providers and Medical Education Training to Address Persistent Disparities
Cirila Estela Vasquez Guzman & Andrew L. Sussman
Shifting Narratives for Behavioral Health Justice: The #NMspeaksCrisis Campaign
Jaelyn deMaría & Roberta Rael