Book contents
- Social Scaffolding
- Social Scaffolding
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note
- Section 1 Schooling
- Section 2 Scoping
- Section 3 Sourcing
- Section 4 Scaffolding
- Chapter 23 Making Connectedness Count: From Theory to Practising a Social Identity Model of Health
- Chapter 24 Public Health Values and Evidence-Based Practice
- Chapter 25 Social Scaffolding: Supporting the Development of Positive Social Identities and Agency in Communities
- Chapter 26 Synthesising Social Science into Healthcare
- Chapter 27 Relationships, Groups, Teams and Long-Termism
- Chapter 28 Caring for the Carers
- Chapter 29 The Importance of Creating and Harnessing a Sense of ‘Us’: Social Identity as the Missing Link Between Leadership and Health
- Chapter 30 Smithtown as Society
- Section 5 Sustaining
- Index
- References
Chapter 24 - Public Health Values and Evidence-Based Practice
from Section 4 - Scaffolding
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 June 2019
- Social Scaffolding
- Social Scaffolding
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Note
- Section 1 Schooling
- Section 2 Scoping
- Section 3 Sourcing
- Section 4 Scaffolding
- Chapter 23 Making Connectedness Count: From Theory to Practising a Social Identity Model of Health
- Chapter 24 Public Health Values and Evidence-Based Practice
- Chapter 25 Social Scaffolding: Supporting the Development of Positive Social Identities and Agency in Communities
- Chapter 26 Synthesising Social Science into Healthcare
- Chapter 27 Relationships, Groups, Teams and Long-Termism
- Chapter 28 Caring for the Carers
- Chapter 29 The Importance of Creating and Harnessing a Sense of ‘Us’: Social Identity as the Missing Link Between Leadership and Health
- Chapter 30 Smithtown as Society
- Section 5 Sustaining
- Index
- References
Summary
The foci of this book are on the social determinants of health, and the importance to our health of our social connectedness and social support that turn on shared social identities. In Chapter 23, Reicher surveys these matters and makes three important concluding points. First, shared social identity in groups creates bonds between people and converts those bonds into social capital. Second, he asserts that the key to a new social model of mental and physical health lies in understanding how to support people in building and consolidating their own social groups. But, importantly, he also points out that social identity can work for good outcomes but also for those that are seen as less positive.
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- Social ScaffoldingApplying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare, pp. 227 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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