The role of health capital in health promotion

Hyry-Honka, Outi; Määttä, Kaarina; Uusiautti, Satu

doi:10.1080/14635240.2012.661967

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“…Health capital, therefore, should be considered in the context of varied forms of capital. As -Honka et al (2012) pointed out, health capital has a loose boundary due to its complex and dynamic nature. Different forms of capital, both at individual and collective levels, interact to bolster or impede health access and health promotion.…”

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“…Kuh, Power, Blane, and Bartley () redefined health capital as accumulated resources related to health promotion in a life span and a determinant of not only current but also future health potential. Hyry‐Honka, Määttä, and Uusiautti () further discussed health capital as an entity of health‐related resources that are extended to other forms of capital, including knowledge, skills, and capacities leading to health. Health capital is a useful concept to understand why and how people seek and access care and to what capacity people maintain and promote health based on the amount and the characteristics of available capitals (Dubbin, Chang, & Shim, ).…”

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Constructing health capital in ecological systems: A qualitative evaluation of community-based health workshops in the refugee community

2018

Health Soc Care Community

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Refugee communities face numerous health and mental health concerns both during and after resettlement. Health issues, already deteriorated by chronic poverty, malnutrition and poor living conditions, are exacerbated by acculturative challenges, such as cultural and language barriers, stigma, and lack of resources and information. Since such needs in refugee communities affect both individual and collective capacity, it is important to consider policy environment and socioecological contexts for cultural adjustment and community resources for navigating systems, rather than individual health behaviours and communication skills only. To expand our understanding of health promotion capacity and resources, a broad and context-dependent concept will be necessary. Adopting a concept of health capital, this study aims to explore the impact of community-based health workshops, while expanding and redefining the framework in the context of health promotion efforts for the refugee community in resettlement. As part of community-based participatory research, this qualitative study conducted seven focus group discussions (FGDs) with 22 Bhutanese refugees in 2014. Using a hybrid thematic analysis, themes emerged from the FGD data were organised and categorised into health capitals in ecological systems. The participants reported enhanced confidence and capacity for health promotion at individual, family and community levels. Given the interdependent coping and lifestyles of refugee communities, impacts on the participants' interactions and relations with family and community were significant, which emphasises the importance of assessment of interventions beyond an individualistic approach. The findings of this study underscore the vital role of varied forms of health capital in promoting health in the refugee community and connecting members to needed health resources and information. Health capital is an old and yet still new concept with a great potential to broaden our understanding of health resources by elaborating the impacts and interactions in individuals, family and community for health promotion.

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Section: Health Capitals: Old and New Conceptmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Constructing health capital in ecological systems: A qualitative evaluation of community-based health workshops in the refugee community

2018

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“…Secondly, the notion of mental wealth posits the individual as a potential recipient of such a dividend insofar as they too will suffer from fewer financial burdens and will find potential for 'self-fulfilment'. 33 This second view, that of the individual as investor in their own mental wealth, or health capital, is very much aligned with dominant modes of subjectivity formed through the continued dominance of neoliberal ideology. Particularly in Foucauldian analysis, neoliberal subjectivity is to be 'revealed' by shifting our perspective away from the Marxist and classical liberal view of capital as object.…”

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Wages for Self-Care: Mental Illness and Reproductive Labour

Russell

2018

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This paper will explore both the ways in which the practices of self-care, specifically related to mental health, have emerged as responses to the increasingly precarious status of life after the economic shocks of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), whilst also looking to the work of Silvia Federici and Kathi Weeks to propose models for immanent critique of these practices. Although it cannot be taken as a pure origin, post-GFC mental health discourse has increasingly seen mental health discussed as a form of resilience to precarity. Furthermore, practices of self-care, and psychological forms of treatment such as cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) have become vehicles for the intensification of personal resilience in the face of systemic crisis. If self-care involves an inward looking and depoliticised subject, surely political emancipation lies elsewhere. The possibility of some alternative to our present state of affairs, where self-care increasingly appears as a form of ‘voluntary servitude,’ that is to say, a form of self-subjugation with serious political risks, must surely be taken as a continual project for those engaged in critical inquiry. Then again, to suggest that those engaging in self-care are simply reproducing neoliberal subjectivity would surely miss the ways in which such forms of self-preservation might appear as unavoidable for the individuals in question. Through an engagement with their work—and one that draws parallels between their strategic critiques of reproductive labour broadly speaking, and the more specific area of mental illness and neoliberal governmentality—the question of the “necessity” of self-care will be brought into alignment with the possibilities of its practicality.

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“…Youngsters' health is widely studied from the point of view of prevention of illnesses both in Finland and internationally. The research has focused on youngsters' health habits, health attitudes, life styles, risk and problem behavior, and means of changing them (Birnbaum et al, 2003;Cargo et al, 2003;Carver et al, 2003;Chen et al, 2003;Cooper et al, 2003;Dalle Grave, 2003;Gosin et al, 2003;Hyry-Honka & Määttä, 2012;Hyry-Honka et al, 2012;Rimpelä et al, 2002). At the same time, health-related studies have concentrated on themes around one problem at a time, such as smoking (Carver et al, 2003), alcohol and drug abuse (Gitlow, 2006), violent behavior (Cooper et al, 2003), eating disorders (Dalle Grave, 2003), dating and sex (Määttä, 2010), stress (Chiesa & Serretti, 2009) and so on; while a holistic and positive approach to health has been minimal but called for (Ryff & Singer, 1998).…”

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“…Among other things, health covers taking care of oneself, committing oneself to treatment, and health-related choices (Kickbusch, 1989). In addition, health has been considered as an expression of the individualistic way of living, inner strength, and ability to use strengths and feel good (Bech et al, 2003;Hyry-Honka & Määttä, 2012;Hyry-Honka et al, 2012). Health has been linked to the concept of empowerment (Falk-Rafael, 2001), life management, well-being and life course of a human being (Bech et al, 2003), and social capital (Morrow, 2004), cultural capital (Abel, 2008), and health literacy (Nutbeam, 2008).…”

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The Challenges of Health Education: Finnish Students’ Perceptions of How to Cherish Health

Rask

Määttä

Uusiautti

2013

PEC

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Youngsters’ health is widely studied from various points of view but a holistic approach to health has been minimal. The purpose of this research was to study general upper secondary education students’ health knowledge and perceptions of health by analyzing their answers concerning the subject of health education in the general studies battery of tests in the Finnish matriculation examination. The sample of the research consisted of 611 essays that were the test answers in health education in 2007. The essays covered altogether eight questions about health education. 81 candidates for the spring 2007 matriculation examination and 60 candidates for the fall 2007 matriculation examination participated in this research; altogether 141 candidates. The research approach was phenomenological-hermeneutic. The data was analyzed through qualitative content analysis. According to the results, students recognized people’s responsibility for their own health. They disapproved especially those who consciously neglect their health. According to the findings, it seemed evident that health education as a subject should be further developed so that it supports youngsters’ health appreciation and ability to make health-promoting choices in life. This decade sets special challenges to health education in schools, and therefore, it is important to listen to the youth‘s opinions and perceptions of health in order to, for example, develop curriculum planning. Key words: health, health education, matriculation examination, general upper secondary education.

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The role of health capital in health promotion

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

Constructing health capital in ecological systems: A qualitative evaluation of community-based health workshops in the refugee community

Constructing health capital in ecological systems: A qualitative evaluation of community-based health workshops in the refugee community

Wages for Self-Care: Mental Illness and Reproductive Labour

The Challenges of Health Education: Finnish Students’ Perceptions of How to Cherish Health

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