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Producing Population Health: Collective Action Requires Infrastructure, Incentives & Evidence, Glen P. Mays
Producing Population Health: Collective Action Requires Infrastructure, Incentives & Evidence, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
Population health improvement strategies are collective action problems that require targeted infrastructure, incentives, and information to succeed. Research on collective action problems and solutions in public health and other spheres of practice offer insight for the successful scale and spread of population health innovations.
Workshop: Harnessing Community-Engaged Scholarship For Collective Action To Improve Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Workshop: Harnessing Community-Engaged Scholarship For Collective Action To Improve Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
This workshop for researchers in the health and human services fields examines strategies for organizing community-engaged and practice-based research studies focused on improving population health.
Harnessing Community Engaged Scholarship For Collective Action To Improve Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Harnessing Community Engaged Scholarship For Collective Action To Improve Population Health, Glen P. Mays
Health Management and Policy Presentations
The growing body of theoretical and empirical scholarship on collective action problems offers important lessons about strategies for improving health on a population-wide basis.
The Relationship Between Collective Action And Well-Being And Its Moderators: Pervasiveness Of Discrimination And Dimensions Of Action, Mindi D. Foster
The Relationship Between Collective Action And Well-Being And Its Moderators: Pervasiveness Of Discrimination And Dimensions Of Action, Mindi D. Foster
Psychology Faculty Publications
Given the negative impact of perceiving gender discrimination on health (e.g., Pascoe & Smart Richman, 2009), there is a need to develop interventions to attenuate this effect; collective action may be one such intervention. Study 1 (N = 185) used an experimental paradigm to investigate whether undergraduate women in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada perceived pervasiveness of discrimination would interact with their collective action-taking to predict negative mood and well-being. Results showed that among those perceiving pervasive gender discrimination, informing friends/family and informing the media led to greater well-being than doing nothing, whereas among those perceiving gender discrimination as isolated, doing nothing …