Academic Journal
Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda.
| Τίτλος: | Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Baum F; Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia fran.baum@adelaide.edu.au., Anaf J; Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Freeman T; Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Musolino C; Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., van den Berg M; Stretton Health Equity, Stretton Institute, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia., Friel S; Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia., Schram A; Australian Research Centre for Health Equity, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. |
| Πηγή: | Journal of epidemiology and community health [J Epidemiol Community Health] 2025 Jun 11; Vol. 79 (7), pp. 481-483. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Jun 11. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: British Medical Assn Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 7909766 Publication Model: Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1470-2738 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0143005X NLM ISO Abbreviation: J Epidemiol Community Health Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Original Publication: London, British Medical Assn. |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Mental Disorders*/epidemiology , Social Alienation*/psychology , Noncommunicable Diseases*/epidemiology , Capitalism*, Humans |
| Περίληψη: | Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways production and consumption are organised in Marxist and non-Marxist traditions. The psychosocial impacts it generates are mediated through stress pathways to increase non-communicable physical and mental illnesses. There has been little empirical research on the impact of alienation on health and ways in which the impact might be reduced. This paper sets out an Alienation, Health and Well-being research agenda. We propose two hypotheses: (1) that processes of production and consumption in 21st century capitalism leads to alienation which underpins a significant degree of mental illness and non-communicable disease; and (2) reductions in prevalence of mental illness and non-communicable disease requires public policies which regulate market behaviour in favour of measures which reduce the alienating impacts of processes of production and consumption. (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ Group.) |
| Competing Interests: | Competing interests: None declared. |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH PROMOTION; Health inequalities; MENTAL HEALTH; WORKPLACE |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20250117 Date Completed: 20250611 Latest Revision: 20250611 |
| Update Code: | 20260130 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/jech-2024-223112 |
| PMID: | 39824546 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1470-2738 |
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| DOI: | 10.1136/jech-2024-223112 |