Leeds Metropolitan University - Institute for Health and Wellbeing, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Glob Health Promot. 2012 Dec;19(4):41-4. doi: 10.1177/1757975912464251.
Opportunities and liberties available to individuals allow them to function as full human beings and this should include freedom from persistent pain. Pain seems to be a downstream phenomenon which tells us that something has gone wrong. Health promoters, with their upstream perspective, should be concerned with pain. In this commentary we discuss conceptual issues concerning 'health' as the absence of pain, issues of health justice and issues of health education to raise awareness of pain. We suggest that pain should appear on the health promotion agenda and conclude that more awareness is needed in the epistemic health promotion community of physical pain as a factor in the distribution of health and well-being. We argue the need for more research on the extent to which pain follows the social gradient in the same way that other health inequalities do.
个人拥有的机会和自由使他们能够充分发挥人的作用，这应该包括免受持续疼痛的自由。疼痛似乎是一种下游现象，它告诉我们出了问题。健康促进者从上游的角度出发，应该关注疼痛。在这篇评论中，我们讨论了将“健康”作为无疼痛的概念问题、健康公正问题和健康教育问题，以提高对疼痛的认识。我们认为，疼痛应该出现在健康促进议程上，并得出结论，需要在认知健康促进社区中提高对身体疼痛作为健康和幸福分布因素的认识。我们认为有必要研究疼痛在多大程度上与其他健康不平等一样，遵循社会梯度。
