de-Graft Aikins Ama, Akoi-Jackson Bernard
Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London WCIE 6BT.
Department of Painting & Sculpture, Faculty of Art, College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Ghana Med J. 2020 Dec;54(4 Suppl):86-96. doi: 10.4314/gmj.v54i4s.13.
Since March 2020, Ghana's creative arts communities have tracked the complex facets of the COVID-19 pandemic through various art forms. This paper reports a study that analysed selected 'COVID art forms' through arts and health and critical health psychology frameworks. Art forms produced between March and July 2020, and available in the public sphere - traditional media, social media and public spaces - were collated. The data consisted of comedy, cartoons, songs, murals and textile designs. Three key functions emerged from analysis: health promotion (comedy, cartoons, songs); disease prevention (masks); and improving the aesthetics of the healthcare environment (murals). Textile designs performed broader socio-cultural functions of memorialising and political advocacy. Similar to earlier HIV/AIDS and Ebola arts interventions in other African countries, these Ghanaian COVID art forms translated public health information on COVID-19 in ways that connected emotionally, created social awareness and improved public understanding. However, some art forms had limitations: for example, songs that edutained using fear-based strategies or promoting conspiracy theories on the origins and treatment of COVID-19, and state-sponsored visual art that represented public health messaging decoupled from socio-economic barriers to health protection. These were likely to undermine the public health communication goals of behaviour modification. We outline concrete approaches to incorporate creative arts into COVID-19 public health interventions and post-pandemic health systems strengthening in Ghana.
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自2020年3月以来，加纳的创意艺术团体通过各种艺术形式追踪了新冠疫情的复杂层面。本文报告了一项研究，该研究通过艺术与健康以及批判性健康心理学框架对选定的“新冠艺术形式”进行了分析。整理了2020年3月至7月期间创作并在公共领域（传统媒体、社交媒体和公共场所）可获取的艺术形式，数据包括喜剧、漫画、歌曲、壁画和纺织品设计。分析得出三个关键功能：健康促进（喜剧、漫画、歌曲）；疾病预防（口罩）；以及改善医疗环境的美学（壁画）。纺织品设计发挥了纪念和政治倡导等更广泛的社会文化功能。与其他非洲国家早期针对艾滋病毒/艾滋病和埃博拉的艺术干预措施类似，这些加纳的新冠艺术形式以情感连接的方式翻译了关于新冠疫情的公共卫生信息，提高了社会意识并增进了公众理解。然而，一些艺术形式存在局限性：例如，使用基于恐惧的策略进行教育娱乐或宣扬关于新冠病毒起源和治疗的阴谋论的歌曲，以及国家赞助的视觉艺术，其呈现的公共卫生信息与健康保护的社会经济障碍脱节。这些可能会破坏行为改变的公共卫生传播目标。我们概述了将创意艺术纳入加纳新冠疫情公共卫生干预措施以及疫情后卫生系统加强的具体方法。
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