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Madsen W. History in health: health promotion's underexplored tool for change. Public Health. 2017;154:118-122doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.028.
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Madsen, Wendy. "History in health: health promotion's underexplored tool for change." Public health vol. 154 (2018): 118-122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.028
Madsen W. History in health: health promotion's underexplored tool for change. Public Health. 2018 Jan;154:118-122. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.028. Epub 2017 Dec 22. PMID: 29227913.
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Public Health. 2018 Jan;154:118-122. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.028. Epub 2017 Dec 22.

History in health: health promotion's underexplored tool for change.

Public health

Wendy Madsen

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  1. CQUniversity, Yaamba Road, Rockhampton, Queensland, 4700, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 29227913 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2017.10.028

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: This paper outlined an argument as to why history and historians should be included in a healthy settings approach.

STUDY DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive study.

METHODS: A narrative review of the literature across a broad cross-section of history, health promotion and public health disciplines was undertaken.

RESULTS: Three reasons for including history were identified relating to the social role of history as a means of analysing social memory, of changing social narratives and by raising social consciousness. This allowed for a distinction between history in health and history of health. Precedents of this social role can be found in the fields of feminist and postcolonial histories, oral history and museums in health.

CONCLUSION: Reasons for why historians and health promotion practitioners and researchers have not previously had working relationships were explored, as were some of the factors that would need to be considered for such relationships to work well, including the need to recognise different languages, different understandings of the role of history, and a potential lack of awareness of the health implications of historical work.

Copyright © 2017 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Health promotion; Healthy communities; History in health

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