Thursday, September 2, 2010

PLoS Medicine: Social Relationships Are Key to Health, and to Health Policy

PLoS Medicine: Social Relationships Are Key to Health, and to Health Policy

So, there are difficulties with the methodology here of course, and you have to wonder why, as public health practitioners we jump through great hoops to "scientifically document" what is bleedingly obvious - that having friends and close relationships is good for you. There are no lobby groups explicitly arguing otherwise. However, the move to longer working hours suggests that collectively we forget the wider ramifications of societal impacts on relationships. Perhaps the Foucaultian biopower approach to lobbying for a better society is the justification for such studies.

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