International Health Humanities Network

面对复杂的问题和财政紧缩，世界各地的医疗从业者正在寻找创造性的新方法，以理解人类状况并缓解痛苦。人文学科对各种医疗保健学科都有重要的贡献，但到目前为止，医学人文学科领域一直受限于对医学的狭隘关注和对文学、历史和哲学的关注。这个项目解决了对卫生保健中应用人文学科采取更广泛和战略包容的方法的迫切需求。我们的术语健康人文被选为代表这一主要以医学为重点的进步，一个开创性的项目，发展一个国际健康人文网络(IHHN)，旨在提供一个平台，向更具包容性和更有影响力的‘健康人文’演进。IHHN总部设在诺丁汉大学，但通过与不断扩大的英国和国际合作者的合作，IHHN将为人文和医疗保健学者提供第一个国际可访问的联络点，让他们与医疗保健和社会护理专业人员建立网络、寻找共同目标、开发资源、贡献培训并进行研究，这些专业人员占关怀劳动力的大多数，以及非正式照顾者、服务使用者、自助照顾者以及慈善和志愿部门。IHHN将带头将人文学科纳入创新的医疗和社会护理实践，为社会相关性和影响力的呼吁提供开创性的回应。为开始这一探索，将举行四次受邀讲习班，重点讨论媒体和电影、生态/环境和文学、应用健康语言学和音乐方面的健康和福祉主题。这些研讨会将作为一个起点，扩大人文学科提供信息和改变医疗保健的方式。IHHN将鼓励合作研究，进一步资助应用程序，并为传播和交流思想提供一个富有创造力的领域。

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.