Integrative Health: A Pathway Approach

 


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Air date: Wednesday, June 06, 2007, 3:00:00 PM
Category: Special
Runtime: 83 minutes
NLM Title: Integrative health : a pathway approach [electronic resource] / Carol Ryff, Burton Singer.
Series: Matilda White Riley annual lecture in the behavioral and social sciences
Author: Ryff, Carol D.
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Publisher: [Bethesda, Md. : National Institutes of Health, 2007]
Other Title(s): Matilda White Riley annual lecture in the behavioral and social sciences
Abstract: (CIT): Annual Matilda White Riley NIH Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Sponsored by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Integrative Health: A Pathway Approach Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Burton H. Singer, Ph.D., Princeton University Drs. Ryff and Singer focus on positive health, operationalized with measures of well-being, as more than the absence of disease and illness. A variety of empirical studies show diverse combinations of conditions (sociodemographic factors, life challenges, personal traits, social ties) are associated with high well-being, which in turn, has also shown distinctive biological correlates. Specifying taxonomies of co-occurring conditions (i.e., pathways) requires an integration of diverse sources of evidence across multiple domains and modes of assessment (quantitative and qualitative). Moreover, such complexity must then also be linked with combinations of biomarker responsesthat represent corresponding biological signatures. Their focus will be on how they have worked with these challenges, both conceptually and empirically, in attempting to provide an integrative social and biological portrait of positive health over the life course.
Subjects: Health Behavior
Personal Satisfaction
Quality of Life--psychology
Social Environment
Publication Types: Government Publications
Lectures
NLM Classification: W 85
NLM ID: 101310919
CIT File ID: 13871
CIT Live ID: 5938
Permanent link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?13871