Letting people flourish: defining and suggesting skills for maintaining and improving positive health.

Autor:	Sponselee HCS; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Ter Beek L; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Renders CM; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Kroeze W; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Care for Nutrition and Health Group, School of Nursing, Christian University of Applied Sciences, Ede, Netherlands., Fransen MP; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, Netherlands., van Asselt KM; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.; Department of General Practice, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands., Steenhuis IHM; Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in public health [Front Public Health] 2023 Oct 12; Vol. 11, pp. 1224470. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Oct 12 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI:	10.3389/fpubh.2023.1224470
Abstrakt:	Background: The concept of "positive health" emerged from the need for a holistic and more dynamic perspective on health, emphasising the ability of individuals to adapt and self-manage. The positive health conversation tool helps understand how people score on six positive health dimensions. However, skills within these dimensions to maintain or improve health have not yet been described. This is important for enabling individuals to put health advice into practise. Therefore, this paper aims to define and suggest skills for maintaining and improving positive health. Subsections: Suggestions for definitions of skills within the positive health dimensions are described using the functional, interactive, and critical health literacy framework. Additionally, executive functions and life skills were incorporated. Moreover, the environment's role in these individual skills was noted, mentioning organisational health literacy that emphasises organisations' responsibility to provide comprehensible health information to all individuals. We propose that health promotion interventions can incorporate the proposed skills in practical exercises while aligning intervention materials and implementation tools with end-users and implementers. Discussion and Conclusion: The suggested skills for maintaining and improving positive health are a first step towards a more comprehensive understanding and open to discussion. These skills may also be applied to other practical conversation tools for maintaining or improving health. Increasing positive health through the defined skills may be especially relevant to those with a lower socioeconomic position who also have limited health literacy and thereby may contribute to reducing health inequalities. Taken together, strengthening the defined skills may hopefully contribute to allowing people to flourish in life. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2023 Sponselee, ter Beek, Renders, Kroeze, Fransen, van Asselt and Steenhuis.)
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