What Is Not Conceptualized Is Not Measured: Towards Healthier Societies; Comment on “How to Build Healthy Societies: A Thematic Analysis of Relevant Conceptual Frameworks”

Global geopolitical conflicts, pandemics, the climate crisis or rising inequities within and between countries alongside other intersecting crises all impede the pursuit of healthier societies. This commentary highlights gaps in how framing and measurement approaches reflect narrower biomedical conceptualizations of health. These gaps also relate to whether and how power is analysed, and how interventions that contribute to the (re)building of healthier societies are designed, implemented and evaluated. Dominant measurement approaches in health that prioritize individual measurement of problems and solutions at the expense of whole-of-society intersectoral interventions, and their governance are among some of the reasons. More holistic and explicit measurement equity and well-being (as opposed of disease) are required. Theory-informed research that interrogates values, social norms and ideologies, power asymmetries and that centres the study of complex context-sensitive policy and program interventions should inform future inquiries.

کلیدواژه ها:

Equity ، Measurement ، Intersectoral Interventions ، Power ، Governance ، Healthier Societies