Lessons from complexity science for urban health and well-being

Urban Nature for Human Health and Well-being

Researching Aboriginal health: experience from a study of urban young people's health and well-being.

European colonisation had a devastating effect on the health and well-being of indigenous people in Australia. The history of Aboriginal health research has reflected the history of colonisation; research has understandably been viewed with distrust. The need for accurate statistics and improved understanding of health problems is clear, but obtaining them is not easy. In this paper we describe...

Time poverty, gender and well-being: lessons from the Kyrgyz Swiss Swedish Health Programme

Time poverty methodologies are a response to the failure of income-based measures of poverty to reflect gendered aspects of well-being. However, national time use surveys normally fail to examine issues around women and men’s qualitative evaluation of their time uses, or the extent of their control over their own time. The result could be distorted policy responses which lose sight of the origi...

Health, Wealth, and Well-Being

(PCD) joins Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and scientific journals around the world in publishing on the topic of poverty and human development. This joint effort is sponsored by the Council of Science Editors (1), and the global partnership of more than 200 journals represents both developed and developing countries. PCD is honoring this commitment with a ...

Breathing Well-being and Health?