Social relationships are well understood to have a significant impact on health and well-being, with studies from across psychology, epidemiology, sociology and demography highlighting the importance of multiple and interacting social mechanisms influencing mental health, health behaviour, physical health, and mortality risk. In 2010 a meta-analysis of 308,849 deaths suggested that, at a conservative estimate, […]
Category Archives: Relational Value
Thinking about relationships in health – more than a game of billiards.
A crisis of trust, the compassion gap, and growing health inequalities – what do they all have in common? They all say something about how we relate to each other, and, I would suggest, an inability to take these relationships into account in the complex health and care settings we find ourselves in as patients, […]
Compassion – not just for nurses
Where has all the compassion gone? Its reintroduction is certainly being called for in buckets – NHS England planning guidance says: “we want everyone to have greater control over their health and wellbeing, supported to live longer, healthier lives by high quality health and care services that are compassionate, inclusive and constantly improving”. I […]