Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person Activist Approach

In: Routledge Social Justice Communication Activism Series

Abstract

Cover -- Endorsement page -- Half Title -- Series page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Health Communication for Social Justice: A Whole Person ActivistApproach -- Focus and Scope -- Main Themes and Objectives -- Organization and Rationale -- Significance -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Abbreviations -- Section I: Conceptualizing Health -- Chapter 1: A Whole Person Framework of Health -- Chapter Organization -- Conceptualizing WPHC -- The WPHC Approach -- Health as an Individual and Collective Concern -- Health, Illness, and Disease -- Defining the WPHC Framework of Health -- WPHC -- WPHC in Comparison with Biomedical Approach -- WPHC and the Shift to Value-Based Care -- The Shift to Value-Based Care -- Challenge to WPHC -- WPHC and Integrative Medicine -- Coordination of Care in WPHC -- The Individual's Health Story -- Supporting a Preventative Approach -- Creating a Continuum of Care -- WPHC and the Transactional Healthcare Model -- WPHC as Distinct from the Transactional Model -- WPHC in Comparison with the Transactional Model -- SDoH in WPHC -- Domains of SDoHs -- Healthcare Access and Quality -- Education Access and Quality -- Social and Community Context -- Economic Stability -- Neighborhood and Built Environment -- The SDoHs in the WPHC Approach -- The Relational and Socially Constructed Nature of Health -- The Objectivist View -- Limitations of the Objectivist View -- The Constructivist Approach -- WPHC and a Social Constructionist Approach to Health -- Understanding Social Constructionism -- Strengths of a Social Constructionist Approach -- Applications of SCoH in WPHC Contexts -- Reflexivity and Interdependence in Healthcare Approaches -- Reflexivity in WPHC -- Reflexivity at an Individual Level -- Reflexivity in the Contextual Level.