A Critical-Holistic Paradigm for an Interdependent World

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ID3756135
AuthorsMaria Da Gloria Miotto Wright (0000-0003-2753-5737, Georgetown University School of Nursing, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume43
Issue5
Pages808-824
Publication date2000-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027640021955612
OpenAlexW2067789735
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

The health-disease continuum and the current health paradigm neglect the fundamental descriptors of community welfare, including nutrition or malnutrition, equity or poverty, and sustainable development or underdevelopment. Current practices have a patient-obey-physician approach that assigns a passive role to patients and inhibits dialogue with community leaders. An alternative critical-holistic perspective can help universities overcome the limits of individual disciplines and current practices. The critical-holistic health, nutrition, and development promotion model offers a productive alternative paradigm for university-community partnerships on health, nutrition, and development issues. The model has been used successfully in education, research, and practice in Brazil and the United States and enhances the linkages among individual, societal, and institutional responsibilities. It is especially valuable in communities where social aspects such as low incomes and contaminated water supplies call for dialogue between health professionals and the community that leads to participatory action

Community development · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law) · Health care · Health promotion · Interdependence · Neglect · Participatory action research · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Underdevelopment · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology · Medicine · Nursing

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