Peacebuilding and Mental Health: Moving beyond Individual Pathology to Community Responsibility

Successful integration and maintenance of screening for domestic violence in the health sector: moving beyond individual responsibility.

Domestic violence (DV) screening and prevention interventions have been implemented in the health sector; however, few health care settings have successfully implemented protocols that have been fully integrated and sustained within the larger organization. Researchers have tended to focus on individual-level characteristics of health care providers to explain this. The authors argue that organ...

Individual factors and perceived community characteristics in relation to mental health and mental well-being.

BACKGROUND It has been argued that though correlated with mental health, mental well-being is a distinct entity. Despite the wealth of literature on mental health, less is known about mental well-being. Mental health is something experienced by individuals, whereas mental well-being can be assessed at the population level. Accordingly it is important to differentiate the individual and populati...

Beyond the Walls: Moving To Population Health.

Satisficing Games: Moving Beyond Individual Rationality

Von Neumann-Morgenstern game theory is the multi-agent instantiation of individual rationality and is the standard for decision-making in group settings. Individual rationality, however, requires each player to optimize its own performance regardless of the effect so doing has on the other players, and does not accommodate a definitive notion of group preference. By replacing the demand for doi...

Individual and Community Health

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