Culture matters: using a cultural contexts of health approach to enhance policy making
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This policy brief has been developed in response to the increasing awareness among policy-makers and the public health community of the important relationship between culture and health. Incorporating cultural awareness into policy-making is critical to the development of adaptive, equitable and sustainable health care systems, and to making general improvements in many areas of population health and well-being. By exploring the three key public health areas of nutrition, migration and environment, the policy brief demonstrates how cultural awareness is central to understanding health and well-being and to developing more effective and equitable health policies. Consequently, it argues that public health policy-making has much to gain from applying research from the health-related humanities and social sciences.
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Napier, A. David, Depledge, Michael, Knipper, Michael, Lovell, Rebecca, Ponarin, Eduard et al. (2017). Culture matters: using a cultural contexts of health approach to enhance policy making. World Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/344101
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Cultural Contexts of Health and Well-being, Policy brief;1
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xiii + 37 p.
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9789289052337
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English