Mette Kaasgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 8539657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mette Kaasgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mette |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaasgaard |
| SIGNATURE | KAASGAARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3833-2943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities
The Creative Health Review (CHR) published in 2023 is an advocacy document by the UK National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The CHR defines creative health activities as visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature, cooking, gardening, and visits to cultural centres and heritage sites and claims that active promotion of such activities in socially disadvantaged communities …
The need for robust critique of arts and health research
BACKGROUND: This paper considers weaknesses in a study by Cohen et al. (2006) on the impacts of community singing on health. These include high demand characteristics, lack of attention to attrition, flawed statistical analysis, and measurement. Nevertheless, the study is uncritically cited, in evidence reviews, with findings taken at face value. METHODS: Google Scholar, SCOPUS and BASE citation functions for Cohen et al. identified 32 evidence r…
Is it premature to formulate recommendations for policy and practice, based on culture and health research? A robust critique of the CultureForHealth (2022) report
Introduction: Arts and health practice and research has expanded rapidly since the turn of the millennium. A World Health Organization scoping review of a large body of evidence claims positive health benefits from arts participation and makes recommendations for policy and implementation of arts for health initiatives. A more recent scoping review (CultureForHealth) also claims that current evidence is sufficient to form recommendations for poli…
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Is it premature to formulate recommendations for policy and practice, based on culture and health research? A robust critique of the CultureForHealth (2022) report
Introduction: Arts and health practice and research has expanded rapidly since the turn of the millennium. A World Health Organization scoping review of a large body of evidence claims positive health benefits from arts participation and makes recommendations for policy and implementation of arts for health initiatives. A more recent scoping review (CultureForHealth) also claims that current evidence is sufficient to form recommendations for poli…
The need for robust critique of arts and health research
BACKGROUND: This paper considers weaknesses in a study by Cohen et al. (2006) on the impacts of community singing on health. These include high demand characteristics, lack of attention to attrition, flawed statistical analysis, and measurement. Nevertheless, the study is uncritically cited, in evidence reviews, with findings taken at face value. METHODS: Google Scholar, SCOPUS and BASE citation functions for Cohen et al. identified 32 evidence r…
Arts, cultural engagement and health inequalities
The Creative Health Review (CHR) published in 2023 is an advocacy document by the UK National Centre for Creative Health and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing. The CHR defines creative health activities as visual and performing arts, crafts, film, literature, cooking, gardening, and visits to cultural centres and heritage sites and claims that active promotion of such activities in socially disadvantaged communities …
Music Therapy and Health (3 works) · Art Therapy and Mental Health (2 works) · Health Policy (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · The arts (2 works) · Alternative medicine (1 work) · Applied Psychology (1 work)