Health and wellness through time and space and across the life course
Convenors
Short Abstract
Concepts
of health and and wellness differ significantly through time and space
and across the human life course as people age. What does it mean to be a
well human through time and space and how do these notions change
across the human life course in times of rapid change?
Long Abstract
Concepts
of health and wellness differ significantly cross culturally and
temporally and should be considered across the human life course, as
people age, as well. The economic, social and historical contexts that
individuals are born into influence their concepts of health, wellness
and disease, etc. Food, what constitutes the meal, the cultural
acceptability of foods, words, practices and treatment are vital emic
dimensions but also are first affected in times of rapid change.
Researchers conducting demographic, epidemiological and medical research
projects need to well understand the shifting nuances of the culture
and the shifting meanings across individual life courses to correctly
select the measures and tools of the study in order to implement
meaningful health policy changes. Sources of stress, such as rapid
change, are influenced by shifting local meanings and that meaning
themselves are context/culture dependant. In this panel we will examine
case studies of health and wellness cross culturally, temporally and
with a view to understanding how these change or remain the same across
the human life course. The organisers encourage papers that recommend
policy alternatives and develop culturally sensitive methods delivery of
health and medicine in their specific field contexts and papers that
value aging and the aged as a cultural resource.
Discussant: Maria Cattell
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