Aligning Public Health With a Well-Being Economy: Opportunities and Challenges in Addressing Root Causes of Health Inequities Comment on "Can a Well-Being Economy Save Us?"

IF 5.1 3区 医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Lindsay McLaren
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Labonté offers important critical optimism around the idea of a well-being economy, which is gaining considerable international momentum and offers a much-needed alternative to the current political economic paradigm of neoliberal capitalism and its significant social and ecological consequences. Because of its focus on systems and structures that constitute "root causes" of poor health and health inequities at the population level, a well-being economy aligns strongly with stated tenets and value commitments of public health. It thus provides an important opportunity for public health communities to engage and mobilize as a collective around this important vision. For this to happen, however, public health communities must overcome a reluctance to engage with political economy and take seriously the field's commitment to the public's health. In this commentary I reflect on these opportunities and challenges in the Canadian public health context.

使公共卫生与福利经济保持一致:解决卫生不平等根源的机遇与挑战
labont围绕福利经济的概念提出了重要的批判性乐观主义,福利经济正在获得相当大的国际势头,并为当前新自由主义资本主义的政治经济范式及其重大的社会和生态后果提供了急需的替代方案。福祉经济的重点是构成人口健康状况不佳和卫生不平等的“根本原因”的系统和结构,因此福祉经济与公共卫生的既定原则和价值承诺高度一致。因此,它为公共卫生界提供了一个重要的机会,使其作为一个集体围绕这一重要愿景进行参与和动员。然而,要做到这一点,公共卫生界必须克服不愿参与政治经济学的态度,并认真对待该领域对公众健康的承诺。在这篇评论中,我反思了加拿大公共卫生背景下的这些机遇和挑战。
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International Journal of Health Policy and Management
International Journal of Health Policy and Management Health Professions-Health Information Management
CiteScore
5.40
自引率
14.30%
发文量
142
审稿时长
9 weeks
期刊介绍: International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) is a monthly open access, peer-reviewed journal which serves as an international and interdisciplinary setting for the dissemination of health policy and management research. It brings together individual specialties from different fields, notably health management/policy/economics, epidemiology, social/public policy, and philosophy into a dynamic academic mix.
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