Wellbeing, Whole Health and Societal Transformation: Theoretical Insights and Practical Applications.

ABSTRACT: Society faces several major interrelated challenges which have an increasingly profound impact on global health including inequalities, inequities, chronic disease and the climate catastrophe. We argue here that a focus on the determinants of wellbeing across multiple domains offers under-realised potential for promoting the 'whole health' of individuals, communities and nature. Here, we review recent theoretical innovations that have laid the foundations for our own theoretical model of wellbeing - the GENIAL framework - which explicitly links health to wellbeing, broadly defined. We emphasise key determinants across multiple levels of scale spanning the individual, community and environmental levels, providing opportunities for positive change that is either constrained or facilitated by

SUBMITTER: Kemp AH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8796073 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature