When we talk about health and healthy living, there seems to be, at times, a division within healthcare (and outside of it) about what are the factors that contribute to your health and wellbeing. Good genes? How well you eat? Whether have a safe neighbourhood to play in? If you take a look at our page on health determinants, you’ll see that all of these, and others, have a role.
Fellow triPop member Sarah Hergett shared the video (found below) with our group the other day, and it’s worth passing on. It’s a presentation from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. In this seven minute presentation, you’ll find how researches from the fields of neuroscience, biology, and public health present the tangible links between what goes on inside our bodies to how that’s impacted on our health throughout our lives. As a librarian – and an advocate for literacy and health literacy – I was particularly thrilled to see libraries on the list of important resources that contribute to our health. So…support your local library! Support your community. It’s good for your health:).
InBrief: The Foundations of Lifelong Health from Center on the Developing Child on Vimeo.
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Thank you very much for this posting. A wonderful overview of how biology writ large (genetic, environmental, and policy factors) affect not only child development but the relationships needed for healthy small and large (as countries) communities.
I’ve included this in my health/medical news blog.
http://jflahiff.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/from-biology-to-community-library-the-settings-for-health/
Found out about this through your CAPHIS posting (I am a dues paying CAPHIS member)
Best!
Janice Flahiff
Toledo, OH
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thank for blog information
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