Prevention Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania.
Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
Pediatrics. 2022 May 1;149(Suppl 5). doi: 10.1542/peds.2021-053509I.
In recognition of the family as central to health, the concept of family, rather than individual, health has been an important area of research and, increasingly, clinical practice. There is a need to leverage existing theories of family health to align with our evolving understanding of Life Course Health Development, including the opportunities and constraints of the family context for promoting lifelong individual and population health. The purpose of this article is to propose an integrative model of family health development within a Life Course Health Development lens to facilitate conceptualization, research, and clinical practice. This model provides an organizing heuristic model for understanding the dynamic interactions between family structures, processes, cognitions, and behaviors across development. Potential applications of this model are discussed.
认识到家庭是健康的核心,家庭健康的概念,而不是个人健康,一直是研究和越来越多的临床实践的重要领域。需要利用现有的家庭健康理论,使其与我们对生命过程健康发展的不断发展的理解保持一致,包括家庭环境促进终生个人和人口健康的机会和限制。本文的目的是在生命过程健康发展视角下提出一个家庭健康发展的综合模型,以促进概念化、研究和临床实践。该模型为理解家庭结构、过程、认知和行为在整个发展过程中的动态相互作用提供了一个组织启发式模型。讨论了该模型的潜在应用。