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Art Based Health Promotion - Coggle Diagram
Art Based Health Promotion
Theatre based or arts based participatory methods has its deep roots in research and activism and research.
Highlight experiences of populations facing marginalization.
This approach can be useful to convey health information as seen in South Africa and the promotion of HIV medication.
Visual forms can better highlight youth experiences and freedom of expression, which can be useful in promoting health amongst their peers and communities.
Can aid in reflexivity among researchers and their participants and shift towards equitable knowledge sharing.
Songs can be used to unify people and protest inequitable politics and injustices, and can also be used to liberate communities
Arts-based health promotion methods can be powerful tools in addressing social and health inequities.
Art can be more of an engaging and accessible tool for communities to understand and participate in.
This form of health promotion challenges traditional colonial health promotion practices that put the onus of good health and wellbeing on the individual instead of recognizing that health is more complex and includes bidirectional relationship between people and their environments.
This approach can challenge public health practitioners to recognize and reflect on their social location and thoughts while creating and delivering strategies.
can create a platform to amplify voices that are typically oppressed
Arts based health promotion is powerful in creating unity among communities and doing justice to peoples lived experiences.
A powerful vessel for eliciting attention, emotions, and a response from communities.
In instances like the COVID-19 pandemic, art served as a means for connection and hope when people had to socially isolate.
Different forms of art can express and highlight the factors beyond a person's physical health that contribute to their health outcome.
Art gives the communities an easier way to show policy and decision makers the factors that impact their health and wellbeing such as through photographs.
Includes creative ways to get health promotion messaging across that is easier to digest, such as through songs.
Arts-based approaches can give space and amplify the voices of communities that have been oppressed, stigmatized, and marginalized.
The arts can create connections among people within the communities and solidarity.
An avenue that is more accessible, digestible, and impactful.
Art can provide an opportunity for social and health injustices to be posted and shared through social media platforms through which information is spread fast and widely.
Photovoice and videovoice have been successful in providing a window into people's reality that would not be as accurately captured through traditional forms of research that treats their population of interest as data points.
Using art within communities can provide opportunities for health promotion for collaboration, connection, and co-creation between groups that are typically not within the same sphere.
Equity-centered design can also be a useful tool that combines health promotion and art.
Communities members, artists, social activists health care providers, researchers, etc.
Creates an opportunity to define and address local concerns that can be meaningfully illustrated by art
The arts can be used to help develop social support for communities to improve their health.