“Well-Being in All Policies”: Promoting Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Improve People's Lives

Kottke, Thomas E.; Stiefel, Matt; Pronk, Nicolaas P.

doi:10.5888/pcd13.160155

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“Well-Being in All Policies”: Promoting Cross-Sectoral Collaboration to Improve People's Lives

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2016/04/01
By Kottke, Thomas E. ; Stiefel, Matt ; Pronk, Nicolaas P.
Series: Preventing Chronic Disease

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English

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Journal Article:

Preventing Chronic Disease
Personal Author:

Kottke, Thomas E. ; Stiefel, Matt ; Pronk, Nicolaas P.
Description:

Evans and Stoddart are only two of the many respected thinkers and political leaders who advocated for defining well-being as the ultimate goal of social policy after the Lalonde report was published. Adopting this convention could avoid the problems caused when health care policy is conflated with health policy. It may also increase the willingness of policy makers in all sectors to discuss how their policies add to or detract from the overall well-being of the individuals and populations they serve. Well-being is a widely endorsed concept and is associated with positive outcomes for individuals, organizations, and populations. Finally, it is measurable, modifiable, and influential. The words of Atul Gawande in Being Mortal present a poignant description of why Americans would benefit from "well-being in all policies": We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. [Description provided by NIOSH]
Subjects:

Delivery Of Health Care Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety
Keywords:

Policy; Health promotion; Health protection; Health programs; Medical care; Public health; Partnership; TWH; Total Worker Health
Source:

Prev Chronic Dis 2016 Apr; 13:160155
Series:

Preventing Chronic Disease
DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd13.160155
ISSN:

1545-1151
Pubmed ID:

27079650
Pubmed Central ID:

PMC4852755
Document Type:

Text
Genre:

Journal Article
Place as Subject:

California ; Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

7 pdf pages
Volume:

13
NIOSHTIC Number:

nn:20061436
Contact Point Address:

Thomas E. Kottke, MD, MSPH, Medical Director for Well-being, HealthPartners, 8170 33rd Ave South, Mail Stop 21110X, Minneapolis, MN 55425
Email:

Thomas.E.Kottke@HealthPartners.com
Federal Fiscal Year:

2016
Performing Organization:

Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
Peer Reviewed:

True
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Preventing Chronic Disease
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