Health and Wellbeing

Health is essential to sustainable development and is intertwined with issues such as economic growth and poverty, education, gender equality and the environment. Health is not merely concerned with disease and mortality, but also promoting physical, mental and social well-being for individuals and populations across the life course. Despite significant improvements in health and wellbeing across the globe, it is widely acknowledged that this has masked inequality in progress between and within countries.

Social justice is a core value of our hub, and our expertise in participative and inclusive research methods are used to explore diversity and inequality in health and wellbeing from the cradle to the grave. The hub brings together research in the areas of:

  • Children, young people and families.
  • Ageing, death, dying and bereavement.
  • Reproduction, sexualities, and sexual health.
  • Learning disability and long-term conditions.

It focuses on the complementarities of health and wellbeing and the impact on sustainable development.

 

Publications

‘I really wanted to abort’ Desire for abortion, failed abortion and forced motherhood in South-Western Nigeria.

 Oluseye, A., Waterhouse, P. & Hoggard, L. (2021)  Global Public Health.

Factors associated with the onset of major depressive disorder in adults with type 2 diabetes living in 12 different countries: results from the INTERPRET-DD prospective study

Lloyd, C. E.; Sartorius, N.; Ahmed, H. U.; Alvarez, A.; Bahendeka, S.; Bobrov, A. E.; Burti, L.; Chaturvedi, S. K.; Gaebel, W.; de Girolamo, G.; Gondek, T. M.; Guinzbourg, M.; Heinze, M. G.; Khan, A.; Kiejna, A.; Kokoszka, A.; Kamala, T.; Lalic, N. M.; Lecic-Tosevski, D.; Mannucci, E.; Mankovsky, B.; Müssig, K.; Mutiso, V.; Ndetei, D.; Nouwen, A.; Rabbani, G.; Srikanta, S. S.; Starostina, E. G.; Shevchuk, M.; Taj, R.; Valentini, U.; van Dam, K.; Vukovic, O. and Wölwer, W. (2020)

Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 29(e134) (pp. 1-9)

Early maternal work and child vocabulary development: evidence from Ethiopia (2021)
Waterhouse, Philippa and Bennett, Rachel
Journal of Family Studies ((Early access)

Care in late life, end of life and in bereavement for the oldest LGBT generations around the globe (2021)
Almack, Kathryn; King, Andrew and Jones, Rebecca L
Sexualities ((Early access))

Comparing knowledge and attitudes to dementia care in Brazilian and UK GPs to guide future decisions about educational interventions (2020)
Jacinto, Alessandro Ferrari; Gordon, Adam Lee; Samra, Rajvinder; Steiner, Ana Beatriz; Mayoral, Vania Ferreira de Sá and Citero, Vanessa de Albuquerque
Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 41(2) (pp. 250-257)

‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities (2021)
Tilley, Elizabeth; Strnadová, Iva; Ledger, Sue; Walmsley, Jan; Loblinzk, Julie; Christian, Paul Anthoney and Arnold, Zara Jane
International Journal of Social Research Methodology ((Early Access))

 

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Email: CSGD@open.ac.uk

Twitter: @OU_CSGD

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