University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Community Health Equity Res Policy. 2024 Apr;44(3):315-322. doi: 10.1177/2752535X231175072. Epub 2023 May 17.
The significance of mental health inequities globally is illustrated by higher rates of anxiety and depression amongst racial and ethnic minority populations as well as individuals of lower socioeconomic status. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated these pre-existing mental health inequities. With rising mental health concerns, arts engagement offers an accessible, equitable opportunity to combat mental health inequities and impact upstream determinants of health. As the field of public health continues to shift its focus toward social ecological strategies, the social ecological model of health offers an approach that prioritizes social and structural determinants of health. To capture the impacts of arts engagement, this paper creates an applied social ecological model of health while aiming to advocate that engaging in the arts is a protective and rehabilitative behavior for mental health.
全球心理健康不平等的重要性体现在，少数族裔和社会经济地位较低的人群中焦虑和抑郁的比率更高。COVID-19 大流行进一步加剧了这些先前存在的心理健康不平等现象。随着心理健康问题的不断增加，艺术参与提供了一个可及、公平的机会，可以解决心理健康不平等问题，并影响健康的上游决定因素。随着公共卫生领域继续将重点转向社会生态策略，健康的社会生态学模式提供了一种优先考虑健康的社会和结构决定因素的方法。为了捕捉艺术参与的影响，本文创建了一个应用的健康社会生态学模型，同时旨在倡导参与艺术是一种保护和康复心理健康的行为。
