{"title":"Why public health needs creative and arts-based futures thinking.","authors":"C Velez, E Guichenal, G Dimitropoulos, S N Iyer","doi":"10.1177/17579139261430638","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Global crises like climate change, unregulated technologies, inequality, and mental health struggles are creating fear and uncertainty. This article shows how creative foresight - using arts, imagination, and participation - can help communities, particularly those previously left out, envision fairer futures, build hope, strengthen trust, and take collective action for public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":47256,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"177-179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13586477/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Perspectives in Public Health","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139261430638","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/4/26 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Global crises like climate change, unregulated technologies, inequality, and mental health struggles are creating fear and uncertainty. This article shows how creative foresight - using arts, imagination, and participation - can help communities, particularly those previously left out, envision fairer futures, build hope, strengthen trust, and take collective action for public health.
期刊介绍:
Perspectives in Public Health is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed journal. It is practice orientated and features current topics and opinions; news and views on current health issues; case studies; book reviews; letters to the Editor; as well as updates on the Society"s work. The journal also commissions articles for themed issues and publishes original peer-reviewed articles. Perspectives in Public Health"s primary aim is to be an invaluable resource for the Society"s members, who are health-promoting professionals from many disciplines, including environmental health, health protection, health and safety, food safety and nutrition, building and engineering, primary care, academia and government.