Music and Public Health
Music and Public Health

Author: Lars Ole Bonde

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-23

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 3319762400

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From the Nordic countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland) comes an exciting source of theoretical approaches, epidemiological findings, and real-life examples regarding the therapeutic and health-enhancing effects of music. Experts across fields including psychology, neurology, music therapy, medicine, and public health review research on the benefits of music in relieving physiological, psychological, and socioemotional dysfunction. Chapters link musical experiences (listening and performing, as well as involvement in movement, dance, and theatre) to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical objectives such as preventing isolation, regulating mood, reducing stress and its symptoms, and treating dementia. And the book’s section on innovative music-based interventions illustrates opportunities for incorporating musical activities into public health programs. Among the topics covered are: · Associations between the use of music, cultural participation and health-related outcomes in adult Scandinavian populations · Music practice and emotion handling · How music translates itself biologically in the body · Music as a forum for social-emotional health · Participation and partnership as core concepts in music and public health · Music therapy as health promotion for mothers and children at a public health clinic Music and Public Health will gain interested readers among researchers, teachers, students, and clinicians in the fields of music education and therapy, as well as researchers and students of public health who are interested in the influence of culture and the arts. The book also will be relevant to administrators in public health services.

Music, Health and Wellbeing
Music, Health and Wellbeing

Author: Naomi Sunderland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1349952842

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This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this volume health and wellbeing outcomes are conceptualised on a continuum, with potential effects identified in relation to individual participants, their communities but also society at large. While arts therapy approaches have a clear place in the text, the emphasis is on music making outside of clinical contexts and the broader roles musicians, music facilitators and educators can play in enhancing wellbeing in a range of settings beyond the therapy room. This innovative edited collection will be of great interest to scholars and practitioners of music, social services, medical humanities, education and the broader health field in the social and medical sciences.

Music, Health, and Wellbeing
Music, Health, and Wellbeing

Author: Raymond MacDonald

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-02-09

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0199586977

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Music has a universal and timeless potential to influence how we feel, yet, only recently, have researchers begun to explore and understand the positive effects that music can have on our wellbeing.This book brings together research from a number of disciplines to explore the relationship between music, health and wellbeing.

Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing
Oxford Textbook of Creative Arts, Health, and Wellbeing

Author: Stephen Clift

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0199688079

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There is growing interest internationally in the contributions which the creative arts can make to wellbeing and health in both healthcare and community settings. A timely addition to the field, this book discusses the role the creative arts have in addressing some of the most pressing public health challenges faced today. Providing an evidence-base and recommendations for a wide audience, this is an essential resource for anyone involved with this increasingly important component of public health practice.

Psychological Health Effects of Musical Experiences
Psychological Health Effects of Musical Experiences

Author: Töres Theorell

Publisher: Springer Science & Business

Published: 2014-04-18

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 9401789207

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This book is about links between music and health. It focuses on music and public health, and, in particular, the potentially positive and negative effects of listening to and making music on the health of the general population. The book starts out by discussing the protection music offers against adverse effects of stress. It then discusses social aspects of music production and listening and examines religious music within the framework of social functioning. It offers insight into the physiological and psychological effects of music listening, the biological effects of singing, and the use of music in therapeutic situations and the rearing of children. The book concludes by discussing the significance of music for musicians and their health. Although it may seem that music has only good health effects, and therefore all professional musicians should be healthy, not all music effects are positive. The book describes situations in which music has negative health effects and makes clear that there is a pronounced difference between living with music for joy and to earn one ́s living from making music. In the latter situation, performance anxiety may become a factor that affects health adversely.

What Is the Evidence on the Role of the Arts in Improving Health and Well-Being
What Is the Evidence on the Role of the Arts in Improving Health and Well-Being

Author: Daisy Fancourt

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9789289054553

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Over the past two decades, there has been a major increase in research into the effects of the arts on health and well-being, alongside developments in practice and policy activities in different countries across the WHO European Region and further afield. This report synthesizes the global evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being, with a specific focus on the WHO European Region. Results from over 3000 studies identified a major role for the arts in the prevention of ill health, promotion of health, and management and treatment of illness across the lifespan. The reviewed evidence included study designs such as uncontrolled pilot studies, case studies, small-scale cross-sectional surveys, nationally representative longitudinal cohort studies, community-wide ethnographies and randomized controlled trials from diverse disciplines. The beneficial impact of the arts could be furthered through acknowledging and acting on the growing evidence base; promoting arts engagement at the individual, local and national levels; and supporting cross-sectoral collaboration.

Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing
Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing

Author: Katrina McFerran

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0198808992

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With 26 authors from around the globe, The Handbook of Music, Adolescents, and Wellbeing brings together the latest theory, research, and practice from the fields of music therapy, music psychology, music education, and music sociology to explore and understand how and why music plays such a big part in the lives of young people.

Behavioral Economics and Public Health
Behavioral Economics and Public Health

Author: Christina A. Roberto

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 019939833X

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Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the groundbreaking insights of behavioral economics to the persisting problems of health behaviors and behavior change. In addition to providing a primer on the behavioral economics principles that are most relevant to public health, this book offers details on how these principles can be employed to mitigating the world's greatest health threats, including obesity, smoking, risky sexual behavior, and excessive drinking. With contributions from an international team of scholars from psychology, economics, marketing, public health, and medicine, this book is a trailblazing new approach to the most difficult and important problems of our time.

The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy
The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy

Author: Jane Edwards

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 1009

ISBN-13: 0198817142

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Music therapy is growing internationally to be one of the leading evidence-based psychosocial allied health professions to meet needs across the lifespan.The Oxford Handbook of Music Therapy is the most comprehensive text on this topic in its history. It presents exhaustive coverage of the topic from international leaders in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology
The Oxford Handbook of Medical Ethnomusicology

Author: Benjamin Koen

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2011-04-27

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0199756260

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This volume establishes the discipline of medical ethnomusicology and expresses its broad potential. It also is an expression of a wider paradigm shift of innovative thinking and collaboration that fully embraces both the health sciences and the healing arts.