TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking public health
T2 - Promoting public engagement through a new discursive environment
AU - Sun, Ye
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PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - I reexamine the notion of public health after reviewing critiques of the prevalent individualistic conception of health. I argue that public health should mean not only the health of the public but also health in the public and by the public, and I expound on the social contingency of health and highlight the importance of the interpersonal dimensions of health conditions and health promotion efforts. Promoting public health requires activating health-enhancing communicative behaviors (such as interpersonal advocacy and mutual responsibility taking) in addition to individual behavioral change. To facilitate such communicative behaviors, it is imperative to first construct a new discursive environment in which to think and talk about health in a language of interdependence and collective efforts.
AB - I reexamine the notion of public health after reviewing critiques of the prevalent individualistic conception of health. I argue that public health should mean not only the health of the public but also health in the public and by the public, and I expound on the social contingency of health and highlight the importance of the interpersonal dimensions of health conditions and health promotion efforts. Promoting public health requires activating health-enhancing communicative behaviors (such as interpersonal advocacy and mutual responsibility taking) in addition to individual behavioral change. To facilitate such communicative behaviors, it is imperative to first construct a new discursive environment in which to think and talk about health in a language of interdependence and collective efforts.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301638
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301638
M3 - RGC 21 - Publication in refereed journal
C2 - 24228674
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 104
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
IS - 1
ER -
