International Health Humanities Network

世界各地的卫生保健从业者正在寻找创造性的新方法，以了解人类的状况和改善痛苦，往往在面对复杂的问题和财政紧缩。人文学科对各种医疗保健学科都有重要贡献，但迄今为止，医学人文领域一直受到医学和文学，历史和哲学的狭隘关注的限制。本项目解决了迫切需要更广泛和战略包容性的方法来应用人文在医疗保健中。我们选择“健康人文”一词是为了代表远离这一主要医学重点的进展，这是一个开创性的项目，旨在开发一个国际健康人文网络（IHHN），旨在为向更具包容性和影响力的“健康人文”发展提供一个平台。总部设在诺丁汉大学，但在与英国和国际合作者的不断扩大的基础合作，IHHN将提供第一个国际访问的人文和医疗保健学者的联络点，以网络，找到共同的目标，开发资源，促进培训，并与卫生和社会护理专业人员谁构成了大多数的护理劳动力，以及非正式护理人员进行研究，服务用户，自我照顾者，慈善和志愿部门。IHHN将率先在创新的健康和社会护理实践人文学科的参与，提供了一个开拓性的回应社会相关性和影响的呼吁。为了开始这种探索，将举办四次应邀讲习班，重点讨论健康和福祉的主题：媒体和电影;生态/环境和文学;应用健康语言学;和音乐。这些研讨会将作为一个起点，扩大人文学科可以告知和改变医疗保健的方式。IHHN将鼓励合作研究，进一步资助应用，并为思想的传播和交流提供一个生成领域。

Health care practitioners around the world are searching for creative new ways of making sense of the human condition and ameliorating distress, often in the face of complex problems and financial austerity. The humanities have a key contribution to make to a variety of healthcare disciplines, but so far the field of medical humanities has been limited by a narrow focus on medicine and a preoccupation with literature, history and philosophy.This project addresses a pressing need for a broader and strategically inclusive approach to applied humanities in health care. Our term Health Humanities is chosen to represent progress away from this largely medical focus, with a groundbreaking project to develop an International Health Humanities Network (IHHN) aiming to provide a platform for an evolution towards a more inclusive and impactful 'Health Humanities'. Based at the University of Nottingham, but in partnership with an expanding base of UK and international collaborators the IHHN will provide the first internationally accessible focal point for humanities and healthcare scholars to network, find shared objectives, develop resources, contribute to training, and undertake research with health and social care professionals who comprise the majority of the caring workforce, as well as informal carers, service users, self-carers, and charitable and voluntary sector.The IHHN will spearhead the involvement of humanities disciplines in innovative health and social care practice, offering a pioneering response to the call for social relevance and impact. To begin such an exploration, four invited workshop sessions will be held that focus on the themes of health and well-being in terms of: media and film; ecology/ environment and literature; applied health linguistics; and music. These workshops will act as a starting point in expanding the way the humanities can inform and transform healthcare. The IHHN will encourage collaborative research, further funding applications, and provide a generative field for dissemination and exchange of ideas.