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{"title":"“If I was in charge”: A qualitative investigation of water security, gender-based violence and wellbeing in Kenya","authors":"Ednah N Ototo ,&nbsp;Diana S Karanja ,&nbsp;Susan J Elliott","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100230","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The links between lack of access to WASH (water, sanitation, hygiene) and adverse health outcomes is well documented. There is a recent nascent literature on the links between water security and gender-based violence (GBV) that is relatively sparse; this is surprising given firstly that the global water issue is quintessentially a gendered one and secondly that we know this to be a major issue for women particularly in Sub Saharan Africa. This paper reports on the lived experiences of seniors through oral histories (<em>n</em> = 25) with a particular focus on WASH and gender-based violence using Kisian, Kenya as a case study. Results reveal concerns due to inadequate access to safe water and sanitation facilities and also perceptions of structural gender-based violence where participants reported feeling marginalized by government due to lack of supply of clean piped water. The results also reveal that women are excluded from water governance. In conclusion, gender mainstreaming in water resource management and financial support for gender equity should be adopted by all relevant actors in the WASH sector, particularly given our learnings from the COVID 19 pandemic.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100230"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Process and practice in New Zealand Enviroschool implementation","authors":"Rachel Proctor ,&nbsp;Joanne K. Garrett ,&nbsp;Robert Stratford ,&nbsp;Katrina Wyatt ,&nbsp;Andrew James Williams ,&nbsp;Cornelia Guell","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This qualitative study explores the practices and processes associated with implementing the Enviroschools approach. Enviroschools aim to nurture healthy and sustainable communities through learning and taking action collaboratively. The approach is implemented in over 1600 early childhood centres, primary, intermediate and secondary schools in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with 26 participating teachers, school leaders and Enviroschool facilitators and co-ordinators across 6 regions nationwide. Transcripts were analysed through thematic analysis. Two themes were developed to situate and describe participants’ experiences of implementing the approach: forming relationships through attunement and sustaining relationships through critical reflection. Both of these themes speak to the value of applying a relational lens to understand the implementation of systems approaches, particularly in school settings. Our findings also suggest that there is a need for and an appreciation of systems approaches to nurturing wellbeing and sustainability in school communities and that extending systems thinking to the implementation of these approaches can help to bring the interconnections between health and sustainability to life in meaningful ways. The participants valued viewing and approaching implementation as a journey that develops proximal and more distant currents of change over time. Further research to explore the mechansisms of change and how these lead to outcomes may help to translate the practices and processes of implementation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100226"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142586761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The loss of rural vital places: A case study using the social determinants of health framework","authors":"Danielle Rhubart ,&nbsp;Jennifer Kowalkowski ,&nbsp;Hazel Velasco Palacios ,&nbsp;Kristina Brant","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Healthy food sources, recreational facilities, and social spaces serve as vital places for supporting health. Less is known about what happens when vital places are lost, especially in rural contexts that have experienced disinvestment and population decline. In this paper we use a case study of a small rural community in Pennsylvania that lost a substantial share of its vital places over a short period of time to explore the experiences of local residents. Using qualitative interviews with 26 local residents we show that the loss of vital places, which are part of the neighborhood and built environment, intersected with other social determinants of health with potential consequences for health and well-being. This was often because vital places were essential (i.e., few or no alternatives existed) and multifunctional (i.e., supporting health through multiple behavioral and social mechanisms). Examining experiences of local residents following the loss of vital places through a social determinants of health lens helps to identify consequences and inform adaptation strategies. We also use the findings to refine the vital places framework for rural contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100228"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The contributions of community seed saving to health and wellbeing: A qualitative study in Thunder Bay, Canada","authors":"Rachel L.W. Portinga,&nbsp;Charles Z. Levkoe,&nbsp;Lindsay P. Galway","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100227","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper positions community seed saving (CSS) as collective knowledge and practices used to cultivate, collect, conserve, exchange, and advocate for regionally adapted seeds as a foundation of healthy and sustainable food systems. Qualitative research involved twelve interviews with community seed savers in Thunder Bay, Canada. We explored the relationships to participants’ health and wellbeing through themes of physical health, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, and relationships and reciprocity. The findings illustrate that CSS can directly benefit individuals and influence social and ecological determinants of health. We argue that public health should consider CSS a health promotion intervention and an important future direction for research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100227"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wellbeing and sustainability in Europe in the 2010s–An empirical analysis","authors":"Csaba Lakócai (Research fellow)","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100225","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The decade of the 2010s was characterized by relative economic stability in Europe. Most of the countries had recovered from the financial crisis of the previous decade while the new socio-economic crises, brought by the early 2020s, were not yet on the horizon. The economic stability of this period does not mean the absence of systemic issues at all. Environmental degradation, aging societies, refugee crisis, or offshore scandals are but just to mention a few. However, due to the period of relative stability, the direct impact of these issues in different countries can be better illustrated and compared over the 2010s than during the crisis periods. In order to prove empirically this presumption, I apply longitudinal statistical data analyses, as well as cross-sectional regressions, among 39 European countries. The examined outcome variables are the Happy Planet Index (HPI), as an informal indicator of progress, and its sub-components, as proxy indicators for (subjective) wellbeing and (objective) sustainability. The results confirm the diverse trends in terms of wellbeing and sustainability in spite of the roughly even formal economic growth over the period. This highlights the necessity for a multifaceted approach to assess progress.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100225"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142533502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spatial context and informal caregivers’ Well-being: A case study of a Carer Café project in Hong Kong","authors":"Ka Yi Fung ,&nbsp;Wing Sun Chan","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100224","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper evaluates how a Hong Kong community <em>Carer Café</em> program reduce the informal (unpaid) caregivers’ navigation burden of social and health care service system. The cafés took place once biweekly at pantries and activity rooms of social service centers, community centers, and churches, which installed temporary decorations to create a café-like environment. his article will use the conceptual framework of spatial context, including spatial propinquity, spatial composition, and spatial configuration, to highlight four mechanisms in the process of informalization. They are (a) changing layout; (b) promoting spatial propinquity of caregivers; (c) creating a spatial composition facilitating social interaction; and (d) allowing the caregivers to use informal spaces flexibly. Qualitative data from 26 respondents, including social workers, project staff, volunteers, and users, sheds light on the details of four mechanisms. Results show that the Carer Cafés were transformed into a safe and caregiver friendly third place by the informalization process. Thus, caregivers from communities visit cafés frequently. These frequent visits facilitate the Cafés become a hub for informal caregivers access different resources and supports. This paper suggest that spatial context would be an important consideration to further explore in the future community caregiver support service practice and policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100224"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142532942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Negotiating connections, confinements, and neighbourhood places: Older adults’ everyday well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond","authors":"Callista A. Ottoni ,&nbsp;Meghan Winters ,&nbsp;Joanie Sims-Gould","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100223","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted society and raised concerns about the well-being of older adults. Today, many people have abandoned ‘pandemic protocols’ but questions remain about the pandemic's longer term impacts on older adults. We used digitally mediated photovoice to explore older adults’ well-being in the context of their everyday lives, early in the pandemic and again two years later. Nine apartment-dwelling older adults who lived in high-density neighbourhoods in Vancouver, Canada participated in our study. We holistically considered how five dimensions of well-being were interrelated to shape experiences: material, relational, subjective, psychological, and environmental. We explored positive and negative aspects of these dimensions in relation to two key themes: (i) negotiating comfort, purpose and confinement at home, and (ii) navigating neighbourhood places amidst pandemic disruptions. Material resources to meet one's needs (e.g., communication technology, hobbies) and access to public and private greenspaces were assets. However, some participants experienced increased barriers to maintaining the five overlapping dimensions of well-being we examined; these participants viewed their homes negatively, and engaged less with their neighbourhoods over time. We emphasize how older adults’ well-being during the pandemic was a dynamic and, at times, precarious process. Understanding how interrelated dimensions shape older adult well-being might ultimately inform practices and policies that promote age-friendly cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142421061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do perceived natural environment and eco-anxiety relate to mental health and quality of life? Findings from a representative adult sample","authors":"Aglaé Drion ,&nbsp;Pierre O. Jacquet ,&nbsp;Kimberly Brown ,&nbsp;Philip J. Batterham","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100220","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100220","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using data representing the Australian community (n=1083), this study examines whether there is a link between the way individuals perceive their natural living environment and their mental health state. Linear mixed model regressions are used to assess the associations of environmental (perception of environmental problems and eco-anxiety) and non-environmental variables on mental health and quality of life. A small significant association between eco-anxiety and quality of life was found but no significant effects of environmental variables were obtained on mental distress. Our findings suggest that non-environmental explanatory variables, in particular the socioeconomic situation, drive more variance in mental health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100220"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666558124000381/pdfft?md5=bb88cbe83d574d9d5bc9c9a8dd59181f&pid=1-s2.0-S2666558124000381-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Migrants as agents in placemaking: A socio-spatial analysis of Basmane area in Izmir, Türkiye","authors":"Ayselin Yıldız ,&nbsp;Aylin Gürel ,&nbsp;Meltem Ö. Gürel","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100222","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100222","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article explores the place-making practices of displaced Syrian refugees living in Basmane area of Izmir's historic Konak district. By examining everyday spaces, the spatio-material and socio-relational outcomes of Syrians’ placemaking practices, the study positions refugees as active agents of placemaking. Through empirical fieldwork, it underscores the spatio-material consequences and socio-relational wellbeing outcomes of Syrians’ placemaking practices, illustrating how these are shaped and constrained by multi-scale configurations of Türkiye's refugee policies and the perceptions of the local population towards migrants.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100222"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266655812400040X/pdfft?md5=95e0761dde9a8c798f8bc4a682055885&pid=1-s2.0-S266655812400040X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142149576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the health and wellbeing landscape at a third level institution","authors":"Emma S Cowley ,&nbsp;Hannah R Goss ,&nbsp;Caroline Mahon ,&nbsp;Ciaran Dunne ,&nbsp;Sarahjane Belton","doi":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100221","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.wss.2024.100221","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In line with the Healthy Campus framework, this study explored the health, health literacy, and wellbeing landscape for students at an Irish third level institution using a participatory action research approach with the aim to identify potential need, and inform future health promotion action(s). <strong>Methods.</strong> This mixed-method study involved three phases; (1) a scoping review to audit what activities are currently available to support student health and wellbeing on campus, (2) assessment of students’ current health literacy using the Health Literacy Questionnaire, analysed using Cohen's d to investigate the magnitude of differences between student groups, (3) qualitative discussions with university stakeholders, analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, to provide greater understanding and context to the results of the previous phases. <strong>Results.</strong> The scoping review identified 151 activities on campus to support students’ holistic health, with the majority focused on individual support. Students’ health literacy scores were in line with the broader literature. A number of themes were identified within the qualitative data; i) the need for an ‘opt-in’ approach to support a health-integrated culture, ii) barriers and facilitators to health information, iii) the importance of ‘walking the walk’, iv) the specific university experience of 2022 as society emerged from Covid-19, and v) factors that influence student engagement. <strong>Conclusion.</strong> Insight into the participatory action approach undertaken in this study may be useful to inform other higher education institutions (HEIs) interested in undertaking similar work. Thorough description of the findings may also allow these to be transferred to other contexts. The findings of this study can help inform and direct the current university's, and potentially other HEIs, future actions in regards to enhancing the health and wellbeing of its stakeholders. To foster an authentic ‘Healthy Campus’, a whole-university approach is needed HEIs, supported by open dialogue between stakeholders and senior leadership commitment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52616,"journal":{"name":"Wellbeing Space and Society","volume":"7 ","pages":"Article 100221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666558124000393/pdfft?md5=ac2e747f7d4b205e90e7d277abb85630&pid=1-s2.0-S2666558124000393-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142149575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}